Introverted and Intuitive (INFP)

I would like to heartily recommend this cassette by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It is available through Sounds True Audio (just click the image). The Red Shoes is about creating the authentic like, the handmade life, the life that you and only you can create. Do not buy your life at the shopping mall. Make it yourself, every day, in the small ways we can ... with our choices ... and most of all with our ability and need to say no. No, I will not spend my time that way, but I will spend it this way. No I will not do this, but I will do that.

I would also like to share from Dr. Estes' letter to a troubled healer during these times. She commiserates with the person and then begins ...

...I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one.

Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able crafts in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

I would like to take your hands for a moment and assure you that you are built well for these times. Despite your stints of doubt, your frustrations in arighting all that needs change right now, or even feeling you have lost the map entirely, you are not without resource, you are not alone.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. In your deepest bones, you have always known this is so. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

...We have been in training for a dark time such as this, since the day we assented to come to Earth. For many decades, worldwide, souls just like us have been felled and left for dead in so many ways over and over -- brought down by naivete, by lack of love, by suddenly realizing one deadly thing or another, by not realizing something else soon enough, by being ambushed and assaulted by various cultural and personal shocks in the extreme. We have a history of being gutted, and yet remember this especially ... we have also, of necessity, perfected the knack of resurrection.

Over and over again we have been the living proof that that which has been exiled, lost, or foundered -- can be restored to life again. This is as true and sturdy a prognosis for the destroyed worlds around us as it was for our own once mortally wounded selves.

No truer words were ever spoken. I love this woman. Visit Estes' website and learn more.