taking care of what needs to be taken care of

Sometimes when we make changes, when we put things in place or remove things from our lives, when we take care of things that need to be taken care of — in the ways that work for us, we should expect resistance.

Internally and from others as well. It’s natural and comes with any change we try to enact and I know from personal experience (over the past month especially), that feelings of guilt or pouri (sadness) can creep in as we may hurt others in our efforts to cultivate our ideal life that gets the most out of us, that allows us to contribute to kaupapa (initiatives, causes) at max capacity while also making room to go to town on self-care and self-love in our recovery.

If you’ve been keeping up with my socials, you’d have noticed that I haven’t been too active on there..* I’ve been going through things and spending time in the spaces and places and around the people I need to, to heal and get myself back to a good place.

I’ve been taking care of what needs to be taken care of: me.

But don’t worry, I’ve been putting things in place and I’ll be annoying you on your newsfeeds soon enough! Haha but really, this time has been about getting myself back and creating the space for me to do me. Naturally, some kaupapa I’m involved with and also some relationships have had to evolve — I had to reallocate the time and space for myself from somewhere, right?!

This cycle so far has been about reassessing my priorities and how I embody and give to them. It’s been about backing myself, that what I want and need is important, and whatever resistance may come, is a natural part of the process of creating anything.

‘It’s constant destruction and creation all at once’

— Jamie Huia Rolleston

It’s new life. It’s new opportunities. It’s a new cycle.

Get excited.

Tēnā tātou,

Hana.