We’re All Alone in This Together

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — unknown

This year has felt like a lifetime in an instant.

And yet really, in the grand scheme of things, it’s just an instant in a lifetime — albeit the most transformative one I’ve experienced in my 54 years on the planet!

We’re in month 8 of the watershed year that is 2020 and I’m curious to know where you are in your journey and how your heart is. How are you responding to these tumultuous, transformational times?

What’s alive for you?

What are you birthing?

What beauty are you finding in the Great Breakdown?

My year began with a deeply painful, heart-wrenching breakdown, one that preceded — and perhaps foreshadowed — the larger, societal breakdowns that followed. One that I only started to get perspective on and fully appreciate this past week.

2020 was supposed to be a year of joy. A year of relationship. One in which I got to explore my first intimate, romantic coupling with a woman. A beautiful divine feminine soul I had fallen hard for and journeyed with last fall.

But like all things in 2020, it didn’t turn out as planned.

I started the year in a state of profound grief, experiencing the loss, heartbreak, and heartache of this stalled relationship. Longing for a belonging that…