The Healer's Life! July 2014 - Your Vacation - Dr. Elisabeth Crim & Moonstone Center

I wrote this message while flying back from the SouthEast Coast of the USA, having spent 2 weeks traveling and settling deeper and deeper into a hazy, slow, humid Southern existence. It has been both exquisitely delicious and hot and sweaty!  I am flying home to California sitting between my loving husband and beautiful stepdaughter who just explored a college or two for next Fall (my  grown up stepson came back early from our family travels to find a summer job before returning to college).  I am struck that spending 2 weeks of time away from my routine, busy professional life and general life responsibilities, steeped in family, not just immediate, but also  extended, has truly refreshed me.  We also had time at the beach, a different beach, a Southern, Gulf of Mexico beach.  We ate Southern seafood, grilled, blackened, and fried, not California versions garnished with avocado and kale.  We enjoyed family recipes from my husband's youth. We visited my husband's parents who love each of us deeply and well.  His father loves with a delicious Martini or Manhattan and genuinely curious questions of his grandchildren's politics.  His mother loves with a steady normalizing and forgiving grace for everything you can think of.  It is good to spend deep, meaningful, longer amounts of time with your children and your parents and mix up the generations.  It requires patience.  It requires surviving moments of great discomfort and long bidden familiar roles. It evokes deeper and sweeter, surprising levels of love and laughter.  It reminds you of where you came from and gives a glimpse of where you may be going.  It can stir hope and tender kindnesses. (It can also stir some fear and apprehension!)

Healthy intergenerational relationships nudge and strengthen, and I think lengthen our Soul-Life.  Time out of our normal routine awakens our senses with new rhythms and vibrations.  And if you can be in a different climate and environment for a time, the very change of weather, temperature, and humidity can massage your spirit into breathing more deeply...or at least differently than you are used to.

Summer has another month or so left, depending on your location and when your kids or grandkids, or even you go back to school.  Take a break from your routine.  Take time with your spouse or partner or friends.  Immerse yourself in a little time with the generation behind you and before you.  Find a way to be out of your routine and in a new environment, even if just for a little while.

Alter your soul.

     Stretch...Breathe...

              Say a prayer of gratitude...

                      And Find and Enjoy a few of these lazy days of summer!

See you next month,

Elisabeth

   and the Moonstone Center Team

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