Before I share a few words, I wanted to give you all the quick links to my online offerings. Those of you who have been Venmo-ing me for class and who already have the link can continue to do so! Everyone else, please use the links below:

Monday Night Meditation, 7:15-8pm - REGISTER HERE

Tuesday Mindful Flow Yoga, 9:30-10:30am - REGISTER HERE

If you need to pay a sliding scale rate please use Venmo @EllieBurkeLife - $10-$20 and email me for the Zoom link


ALSO! I'm super excited to be joining The Rebelle Community for a coffee chat with one of my faves, Shannon Siriano Greenwood THIS TUESDAY! Anyone is welcome to join us - details and sign up link below:

 

TUESDAY MAY 12 at 1:00pm (EST) COFFEE CHAT: ELLIE BURKE Having led sessions at every Rebelle Con event, life coach, meditation teacher, and yogi, Ellie Burke is our go-to expert on personal reflection and exploration. Want to know why your brain does what it does?     Join via Crowdcast

And, it's become a new weekly ritual of mine to share a mini-blog/Instagram post with you all with the hopes that it inspires, encourages, and ignites curiosity in you during this time. Please join me over on Instagram for more - I'd love to see you there!

This weekend, my husband and I celebrated our 11th Wedding Anniversary - below is what I shared about it.
   

Hey. Remember that day? 

I Love you with everything. And I know you Love me with everything AND ALSO that it sometimes takes everything in you to be married to me, so thank you for sticking it out😳😬❤️

All we knew then (and in the 18 years we’ve been together - and maybe even in the full 27 years since we first met 😬😳❤️ -- again) was the connection & energy of Love. With everything that’s come and gone since, that connection & energy of Love is still there. But it’s seeped into all of the places we’ve been stretched and wrung out and expanded and collapsed and broken apart and grown together again. And as hard as that’s been at times, thank goodness, because here we are: more full of what we’ve always known.

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One of our dear friends commented that it sounded like "Kintsugi." I had to google that :) Turns out that it's a stunningly beautiful art of putting together the broken pieces of pottery by filling the cracks with gold or another precious metal. They call it "The Art of Precious Scars" or "Golden Repair." Check out more about the art as well as how dang beautiful the end results are!

And, of course, because it's what I do, it made me start to reflect on how this time is causing a lot of pain and heartbreak, we are being forced to shift and change in our behaviors, in our thinking, in our emotional states, in our familial structures, and even in our livelihoods - for many of us in a very "forceful" kind of way. This stretching and pushing and cracking and expanding does not come without discomfort. But what it also does not come without is more space (as a result) which is more freedom.

When we resist the fact that the pottery's been broken we get sad, we get angry, we refuse to believe that we cannot have it they way we want it. And we also cannot possibly see that we can put it back together in a magnificently beautiful way, with the breaking points filled with something of a much higher nature. 

So, when you take a look at the pieces, the components of your "former"/pre-COVID life, what do you see? Are there bits and shards that you feel you're better off without? Pieces that you know are integral to a fulfilled, purposeful and joyful life? And what's your "gold?" Is it love? Is it connectivity? Is it community? Is it a slower pace? More nature?

I'd love to hear what you envision for yourself, what kind of art you will make with your own precious scars.

Be safe. Stay well. Stay Conscious.


, Ellie