Aliveness

We are children of nature.
A journal about remembering
how to feel fully alive.

Bare feet on warm earth.
Fingers trailing through cool water.
Lying on the grass, staring at the clouds.

This is what it means to feel fully alive.

We don't need a temple
or a cabin in the woods.

The sacred is already here -
in the ordinary, the sensory,
in the fully felt moment.

Joy is not naivety. It is divine defiance.

The Milk of Dawn
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

The Milk of Dawn

If you have ever woken early and lain in the dark, you may have felt it - that particular quality of the early morning air. Charged, somehow. Expectant. As if the world is holding its breath before it begins again…

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What If You Pushed Through?
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

What If You Pushed Through?

You don’t have to transcend the body to find the light. You don’t have to leave the world to find the sacred. The fur coats are, the wardrobe are, the lamp post is, the snow is - all of it Narnia. All of it Her…

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Not Upward. Inward.
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Not Upward. Inward.

The feminine doesn't awaken by rising above herself. She awakens by coming home to herself - fully, honestly, into her own body, her own life, her own depths…

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Be An Animal Again
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Be An Animal Again

We moved so far from nature that we forgot what we were made of. And then, when the forgetting made us unwell we invented technologies to replicate what nature was offering all along…

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You are the temple
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

You are the temple

You don’t need a temple. You need a body. And everyone already has one. “The body is the temple;
the indwelling Self is the eternal presence.”….

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Where pleasure becomes prayer
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Where pleasure becomes prayer

There’s a kind of holiness in the way sunlight touches skin, the way ripe fruit yields when you bite into it, the way silk feels against the body. Svadisthana - the sacral chakra - is where this holiness lives. It’s the sweetness of being alive.....

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The dance of Lila - trusting your unfolding life
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

The dance of Lila - trusting your unfolding life

Sometimes it feels like dismantling. Other times, like perfect flow. But perhaps it’s all choreography - the same intelligence that shapes a rose or spins a galaxy, is moving quietly through our lives too....

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The feminine isn’t linear, she flows
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

The feminine isn’t linear, she flows

Nature constantly reminds us of the wisdom of the feminine. The feminine isn’t linear or rigid. She moves in rhythms, in tides, in cycles. She softens, she restores, she flows...

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Beauty as medicine
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Beauty as medicine

When did you last let beauty touch you? Not just notice it — but really receive it. Let it stretch your heart, slow your breath, soften your eyes. Let it reach the quietest places in your being....

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