‘Coming Home’ can mean many things, it takes place within us on many levels, and we need to ‘come home’ for many reasons. The more we honour it, the more we recognise there is to honour.  

It’s physical in that our body, as part of nature, needs to shut down and reset and we need the safety of feeling at home to be able to do that. We need to do this often and cyclically, pausing within the day, each night, and seasonally in winter we need a big deep rest down.

Coming home might mean literally, coming back to the place and people where you ‘belong’.  It might mean coming in from the activity of life and settling down beside the fire and the heart(h) of the place you call home.   

It might mean picking up your guitar, pencils, dog lead, dancing shoes and taking some active rest in the kinds of things that bring you into peaceful focus, a sense of centred calm.  It might mean taking refuge in meditative practices that let you shed the roles and veils, set aside all those fractured parts and feel yourself as the same consciousness and with the same breath and heartbeat that runs through all life.  

Coming home is the all-important counterpart to ‘going out there’, ‘getting things done’, and ‘making it happen’.  Both are required for balance, wisdom and wellbeing. And yet . . . how much coming home do we really allow ourselves these days, and why not?

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Gail Brenner, a psychologist and non-dual teacher in California around her personal and professional experience of 'coming home'.  We speak about shifting our identity, micro-dosing to move through stuck emotions and the power of community. Gail is beautiful and gifted in holding safe and supportive spaces that help people to move, be still, and heal. You can read more about her at www.gailbrenner.com.