take your time

I tell my clients after a session: take all the time you need.

Healing can take a lot out of us before it gives back to us and time is a gift we all need. To rest deeply, to process what’s unthinkable, to move through what keeps us feeling stuck.

It doesn’t happen quickly, this healing journey, that much I️ know is true.

So this is my wish for you, in a life that rushes and with people around you (and maybe even the person that is you) fastforwarding your feelings—

Take all the time you need.

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Jess Jackson, Soft Path Healing

Soft Path Healing is trauma-informed bodywork and nervous system nourishment in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curious about working together? Feel free to be in touch.

you don't owe anyone your story

You don’t owe anyone your story. If you are a practitioner, it doesn’t need to live in your bio. If you are a survivor of something, you don’t need to disclose your history or narrative.

Can it be healing to share a story or experience? Yes, of course. But frankly I’m a little tired of this whole thing: “tell your story and you’ll be set free! share your story and help lift the shame and stigma!”

Shrug that pressure to be a changemaker off your shoulders. Only share your story if and when it feels safe to do so. (Because sadly, and that’ll be another ranty post, it doesn’t always feel safe to do so.) For those of us with stories, getting through is challenging enough. Why add more pressure?

Hold your story close and trust in your timing. Whether you share or not, make that choice for you.

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Jess Jackson, Soft Path Healing

Soft Path Healing is trauma-informed bodywork and nervous system nourishment in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curious about working together? Feel free to be in touch.

keep looking for your medicine

If yoga doesn’t work for you, if chakra balancing doesn’t work for you, if talk therapy doesn’t work for you, if crystals don’t work for you, if affirmations don’t work for you, if prescription medication doesn’t work for you, if flower essences don’t work for you...

It is okay. You are not meant for every medicine, every room, every modality. But there is medicine meant for you. Keep looking for it. It can be anything because you decide your medicine, not anyone else. You.

Take care, sweet friends. Take your medicine. And if you feel comfortable sharing what your medicine feels like today, please do. Today my medicine is dance and rest.

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Jess Jackson, Soft Path Healing

Soft Path Healing is trauma-informed bodywork and nervous system nourishment in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curious about working together? Feel free to be in touch.

there is wisdom in holding on

There is always a wise reason we hold on. I️n our work together, I won’t wrench your fist open. I️ will wonder with you about what you are holding, why you are holding, how long you’ve been holding and if it still serves you to do so.

There is always a brilliant (and often protective) reason we stay tight. You know those flowers that only open for the sun? Maybe it’s like that. You know how little kids clutch their parents’ jeans and check out a stranger? Maybe it’s like that.

Or - you’re driving and suddenly need to slam your brakes. Your hands grip the steering wheel and then when it’s safe your hands still won’t quite relax. They might continue to grip the steering wheel even though the danger is over. Our bodies are a lot like that - always trying to protect us, even when the danger has passed.

Let’s honor the wisdom of holding on. Let’s not rush the letting go. We can invite it, but we can’t make it come. Just like everything else.

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Jess Jackson, Soft Path Healing

Soft Path Healing is trauma-informed bodywork and nervous system nourishment in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curious about working together? Feel free to be in touch.