In need of a bigger size....

I'm thinking outer expansion can indicate inner  growth has taken place... an old way of being in the world no longer fits...
 ... remembering the discomfort of growing out of clothing as a child... 

..a pinching of too-tight shoes preventing me from moving comfortably... 
or, buttoned up high, a too-tight school shirt & tie, squeezing against my expanding throat, making it hard to speak... 
and, coats too tight under my arms holding me back...

For a time, I grew out of everything, it seems, although I never became tall...

I was a child who loved food...


Recently, I've put on a new spurt of outward growth... my ill-fitting clothing feels restrictive... 

I still love food...

 The symbol of outer clothing corresponds with ways in which I present myself to the world...

... I have outgrown old clothing... old ways of being...

Some items still fit... I'm noticing they were garments that gave me plenty of room to move when I originally selected them...

Some items are so small, that I haven't worn them for 40 years, but keep them, because I still think they are pretty... must be a part of me that no longer fits them, but that I continue to like... perhaps I am still attached to being a girl...

And food...
is what feeds me... 
another symbol...
I am delighted by new experiences, new ideas, new sensations... 
these are food of the mind, of the soul...

And on it goes... 

So, may you always clothe yourself in beauty, and feast on delights every day of your life.

Be your Self and GROW - Art Therapy for the Art Therapist

There are no "how to be yourself" instructions in Nature...

Tiny seeds already know how to become giant trees...

Everything is born with its own intelligence...

Even humans...

Even Me... 

If I say:"I don't know what do do", I am expressing disconnection from who and what I really am...

I have realised that all anyone can ever really "do",  is become that which they have been born to become...

That is all

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Day 22 or 20 - mandala a day - "Shine"

NOTE TO SELF...!

This was drawn freehand, & I was dismayed, 1/2 way through the sketching out, but the spaces I had created were there for a reason... the hardest part was working out what was meant to go there...

So pleased I found out!

I think the symbolism is self explanatory, but if you need to know, there is a comments box where you're welcome to ask...

Day 15 - a mandala a day "Off Grid"

Was very surprised this came out of my pencils this morning...

I suppose the illusion of safety in numbers, of fitting in to a community... of any kind... it can be toxic in the long run...

Golden swirls of energy and inspiration can flow more freely when not cramped, and growth expands into something that supports life... hmm..

That's big, for the first task of the day...