32 Comments
User's avatar
Jo's avatar

Beautifully stated.

Let it burn, this tendency to want to quickly make it "better".

Here's to savoring both the sweet and the bitter -the lemons and the aid, the grace.

Josephine xoxoxoxox

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Thank you Josephine, yes may we walk on the coals of our grief once it has burned fully!

Charles W. Revealed's avatar

This reading has arrived at a truly perfect time in receiving during a time where I really personally need to and have sacred space for grieving. Your insight in process so far feels very helpful. Bitter lemonade is rather wonderful. Understanding the great benefit on digestion in our systems that is the blessing of bitter flavors, it feels that translates rather well to the bitter energétics as well. Allow liver and gallbladder to release their stored up heat and anger and simply grieve. Prayers for “your” land and all the long term wonder and greater depths in learning that this fire has created amidst all the hurt. Gratitudes for your shares.

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Thank you for your kind words, Charles

Charles W. Revealed's avatar

Yes of course. Sharing from the heart. Seeing all of our energies flowing and moving wonderfully once more here 😊

Linda Hamilton's avatar

A profoundly important message, thank you so much HeatherAsh!

Without experiencing the wild force of grief, I'm not sure if I would have ever discovered the extraordinary depth and capabilities of this Heart 🧡 ... and still discovering!

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

So beautiful, Linda. It is so true that our Heart has such depth and capacity. And grief brings it through so we can be more loving. Blessings

Mary Porter Kerns's avatar

Yes to all this Heather. Thank you. A phrase I say to myself is “everything worth doing has a mucky middle part”. This came from my years of intuitive process painting. The part in the middle where the painting is not working, it’s a mess, I want to quit. But the only way through is to stand with it and keep going with an open heart. And it comes together eventually in unexpected ways. But oh how the mucky middle part sucks - or worse. And can’t be avoided. Just like everything in this bittersweet life.

Thank you for that word bittersweet. One I have not thought deeply about before. YES. May we all become able to stand in the fire.

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

I love that phrase: mucky middle part! Thanks for sharing. We are all artists and when we recognize that our life is our art we understand that it is going to be filled with mucky middle parts, scary beginnings, divine endings, and everything inbetween. Hugs and thanks so much for your writing as well!

Clarisa's avatar

Whew! Did I need these words today, this week, this month, and the last few years! Thank you!

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

You are so welcome, Clarisa!

Allan Hardman's avatar

Thank you, HeatherAsh! <3

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Welcome dear one. Sending a hug your way, Allan.

Laura Stack's avatar

So beautiful and poignant. The poem at the end brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for sharing this powerful and tender piece. ❤️🙏

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

You are so welcome. Grateful to share it.... Blessings to you Laura!

Anamaria's avatar

I loved the post , it made abolute sense, I found it very beautiful and inspiring, thank you for sharing with us Heather Ash!!

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Thank you so much, Anamaria!

Ltwrcvg's avatar

Just what I needed to hear.🙏💜

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

I'm so grateful to hear that!

Toni Snidow's avatar

This is a profoundly beautiful and important message. Thank you, HeatherAsh. xoxo

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Thank so much Toni. Blessings and love to you..

Katie Hemphill's avatar

Beautiful ❤️ Often I wonder, had we only spent more time nurturing the soil, and tending to the roots of our pain, perhaps our forest would’ve grown back after the fires across the way in the Jemez mountains. But we didn’t. And now, decades later, the forest exists in a new form. Still beautiful, but much more so resembling a desert.

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

It takes so much to get things to grow in the desert, especially with all the drought. And I agree; the focus on soil and our own roots is the path forward. And being with what is needed, not what we wish was. Sending love to the Jemez mountains from the Sangre de Cristo mountains...

Dina's avatar

Thank you for this beautiful transmission Ash. And thank you for the book from Barbara, I will have to read it as that was my experience with Breast Cancer. I was NOT going to allow ONLY positive energy, thoughts and therefore bypassing but to be with what was real.

HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

You are amazing, Dina, and you are so welcome about Barbara's book, it is a great other side of the whole just think positively! trope that can happen, especially with breast cancer. Glad you were able to be with your process. Love you so!

User's avatar
Comment deleted
Sep 29, 2023
Comment deleted
HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Thank you, Pipp. It has been both healing and heartbreaking to go back and visit the emotions and experience of the wildfire, and also so grateful to get it into words to share. Blessings

User's avatar
Comment deleted
Jul 22, 2023
Comment deleted
HeatherAsh Amara's avatar

Thank you so much Bridgit. Definitely balancing loss and hope, and may we keep taking turns holding hands and being held...