This morning I walked around my gardens after the rain and I took some pictures of raindrops still fresh on the flowers. As I did, I thought about how after the rain, it washes the earth clean, and provides new energy for the flowers and shrubs to expand with new growth.

It’s the same with tears. I thought about the retreat I co-facilitated yesterday at Coach Horse Ranch with Equine Assisted Coach, Pam. We had five wonderful ladies who took part in our unique offering.

As often times happens, when one slows down long enough to examine ones life, tears will come. How often, we as women, and those that are sensitive, feel we must apologize for our tears.

But tears, like rain, cleanse the soul. The energy that is stuck is able to break free when we cry. Just think about how when you try to hold in a strong emotion that you know will bring you to tears. In my experience it feels like I’m suffocating.

Tears are healthy. When we release them and let them wash over us, it allows new energy to come into our body. It helps us to expand our soul. Well, this is the way I look at it anyways, and most importantly, how I feel about crying. I think it is healthy and opens new channels,and it’s important to feel into those tears.

I’ve also really come to understand this also when I lose a pet, and to shut my heart down and not love another, well, that would mean shutting myself off to the joy that another will bring.

And so it is with our tears… they are a release and also an expansion. And permission to let go and also look ahead.

Hope you will enjoy more pictures I took out in my garden today. I especially loved what I’ve dubbed “mushroom flowers” that seem to pop up after each rain.  And I do pick them right away as I don’t know if they’d be poisonous to my dogs.

Happy Sunday my friends!

 Thank you for sharing and subscribing to my blog updates.