Love for.

As I create from the heart, I often feel stuck and afraid.

Blank pages stare at me, my throat tight. I am resisting. I am pushing against what will soon flow through me.

This moment is so real, so ripe, often I cry. My love asks me each day, "What is wrong?"

Where I am is not wrong, it is where I am, words don't express its depth.

Extra tea, extra time, stillness and flow. The flow of the truth of my now-ness.

It will change. I will let go. Work from the heart has a process that asks for forgiveness, gentle moments.

I ask myself, what do I need to say, now? The shift comes, words show up. Pictures form. Time expands. It is rarely what I imagine it will be after it twists around and plays outside of my resistance.

This process is an emotional one, asking of so much love. Love for our inner creator. Love for the parts of us that will not be perfect.

Love for the overwhelm that is now. Love for the breath that will release it. Love for the goosebumps. Love for the belly of nerves. Love for the need to slow down without stopping.

Love for the moment.

Love for inspiration showing up, living inside.

Love for the feeling of new.

Love for the joy.

Love for the tenderness that is ours to give and receive, as one.

Sponsor Tribe Highlights ~ Gratitude

Huge love and gratitude to the sponsors of Mama Space. You are such a beautiful part of this tribe. Today I send a blessing of gratitude to these beautiful women and their businesses. Hope they can feel it! 

March will be the last month for Sponsorship for a bit. Any interest please email hello@hannahmarcotti.com.

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I will be serving Jen's Om Time Tea during our first Joy Circle which will be March 30th (details to come). Get reacquainted with Jen and find all of her links here.

Nicole is offering gorgeous work to the world, if you missed reading her words, you can check them out here. She has that energizing tickle inside that she talks of!

Christyna's work lights me up! If a compassionate and intuitive financial coach sounds intriguing, it is! Christyna shares more about her life and work here.

February Visions

If you don't believe something is possible, start where you do believe. You don't have to dream bigger than what you are ready to believe. So many of us get caught up here. Tap into your intuition, that voice inside that wants to guide you to your truth. It isn't going to look like anyone else's vision because it is yours.

It is OK to start small and let your visions evolve as you do. We hold ourselves back because we get stuck in the believing. So we stop, we don't continue on. What if we start with what we can believe and as we see those things manifest we move on and on and on. That switch, it will flip but it takes some practice and work and lots of loving ourselves up.

It is also OK to be where you are. If something was a dream or a vision but no longer is, move on, let go. There is so much more waiting for you.

Wanna join me in boarding this New Moon? What do you truly believe? Let's get to work on that!

More on the New Moon:

From Crazy Sexy Life

From Cosmic Life Coach

From Jamie Ridler

From Kelly Surtees

From me, Moon Woman

All Shell?

Often my reactions to things are over the top and they impact those around me, namely my kids. If I am lost while driving I kind of freak out. I feel so disconnected to myself that all I can do is yell at anything the kids are saying and in those moments I feel unworthy. A lot of weight in a situation of simply being lost. It is the reaction, not the situation that is now the problem.

As an HSP, often the reactions don't match the situation. This is OK. This is who we are. It is also OK to want to work on changing how we process our reactions, how we move from the moment into the reaction, and where we let that reaction take us. For me this means creating a little system for myself. Take a breath, an herbal remedy I always carry with me and the most important, not resisting what I'm feeling.

Two things are going on for me at the point of overwhelm. One is feeling overstimulated and unable to be inside of the situation.

The other is related to thoughts become things, we attract what vibration we are putting out. Joy brings joy, frustration brings frustration.

I was inside of a reaction this morning and this reaction was causing me to be unfocused in my work and to be short with the kids. Patrick took the kids out so I could work in quiet for a bit. I went to make an egg. I was almost in tears because I couldn't process why I was having such a strong reaction to a situation. I wanted it to go away. I was so tired of thinking about it. I knew it was in my life to help me move through to the next level of my growth, but I was still reacting in ways that were limiting me from being happy.

I cracked the egg on the side of the pan, as I always do, the shell shattered a bit but I couldn't get my fingers to break through the membrane. The shell was falling into the pan, none of the egg would release. I tried harder. More shell in the pan. What I most wanted, that egg to flow out into the pan, would not happen.

I scooped up the shell from the pan and I stopped trying to force that egg to release. All of my frustrations and confusions were 'manifesting' in that egg and I knew I needed to let go. It was a meditation during making eggs. I started to honor my feelings while knowing that holding onto the frustration, the hurt and the confusion was only keeping me from getting what I wanted: scrambled eggs and not being held inside of my reactions.

I sat down with my eggs and I took one small action that allowed me to release. While the situation has not changed, my reaction to it has. The vibration I am putting out is calling in calm and space and a chance to expand.

I asked a client once, who wished to pop a bubble she felt she was inside of of all that was limiting her, to imagine that bubble expanding. Of letting it spread and grow and offer her unlimited space. This bubble wasn't causing her the harm, it was the fight she was waging against it.

When we reach out in resistance, we pull in resistance. When we reach out in love, we pull in more love.

What will you grab?

Food Love Notes

I don't say enough how blessed I am to be able to stay home with my kids and do work I love from my couch, my bed, my table, my mini-van, my attic, my backyard or my favorite coffee shop. Yes, it can be tough stuff on the days when I feel a bit unappreciated or the kids are screaming, but I am so grateful to have a partner who loves the work I do and believes in me, sometimes more than I am able to.

The other day I said something about February not being a month of much income but having so much to do. He said, "Awesome, then you can spend more time creating." That my friends is love.

Patrick does not have a job that he finds terribly fulfilling, and I know that one thing at the end of a long day that he loves is the moment he comes up our front stairs and smells dinner. The meals are my food love notes.

Food can be presented in and with love. Not when we are stuffing ourselves or our kids as a way to fill up, but when we take our time and plan and prepare and infuse the food we make with our love. Fresh ingredients. Spices like notes from a song. Fragrances we want to dance in. Love notes.

I was in a crazy cook everything in the house mood the other day and I roasted a butternut squash. I had no idea what I wanted to do, so I made a pie. This is a food love note. Use what you have in the house, that is how I put it together, a little of this, a dash of that.

Butternut Squash Pie, with dark chocolate...oh my!

Pie Crust:

1 cup almond meal
¼ teaspoon sea salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
2 Tb olive oil
1 Tb honey
2 Tb dark chocolate chips

Combine meal, salt, baking soda, oil and honey together. Oil a 9 ½ inch pie plate. Press the crust in the bottom, but not up the sides. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 and let cool. When cool sprinkle the dark chocolate evenly on the crust.

Filling:

3 cups of pureed roasted squash, I actually just mashed mine until it was somewhat smooth (this was about 2 small butternut squash)
2 eggs
½ cup coconut milk
¼ cup maple syrup
2 Tb coconut palm sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp freshly grated ginger
1 Tb vanilla
pinch sea salt

With an electric mixer combine ingredients well. Pour into prepared crust. Bake at 350 for about an hour or a bit longer. Mine went for 70 minutes. The pie will set as it cools. This is best to put in the fridge once cooled before cutting.

Enjoy your love note!

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