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💛👣This is love: To fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” • RUMI

Rumi is always right. (First to let go of life.) In the kitchen on the night after Tommy’s memorial. Looking right, his high chair and looking left a clean empty milk bottle. I kneeled down to get his formula. I grab it. I stop. I have done this ten of thousands of times before. Chin to my chest, bouncing my knees, closing my eyes- oh yeah, I don’t need to do that anymore. (Hundred more veils falling.) In our backyard, I look at Isaiah biking. Look how tall!and big ! and smart! and daredevil you are!!!! Didn’t I just cradle you both in my arms? (Hundred more veils falling.) Motherhood opened me up to my complexity and identity. My priorities instantly shifted. A crash course in alertness, tenderness, multitasking and forgetting me. But in the forgetting is this remembering and then somehow I give myself room for growth and the dignity to discover what I think and what I want. I give more. I care more. I cannot know or be or do everything: I can only listen, notice and feel my way into my child. I’ve improvised with them and created a nest from day 1 and it’s been;

Quiet and loud.
Difficult and delightful. (this is love)
Rumi is always right. (to fly towards a secret sky)
And so i fly!
And take one more step without feet.

Yours in unfolding into the wondrous path ahead, whether that be motherhood or soul missions.
Always.
E ⭐️ #tommytinkerforever

Nothing selfish about wanting the live well and be well. Upon the incredible opportunity to detach completely from your everyday life, I let it reclaim fragment parts of me that have been misplaced. A reset button for life. My ONE life. A time to be who I really am. Reckless courage to belong.
To heal myself is what will ultimately heal the world. It starts with Me. Am IT! Don’t you see? Selfish trips
are not selfish at all. Nothing selfish about wanting to heal. To be well and live well is what this life wants for us. I believe in this, fiercely.
Love you in belonging, always.
E ⭐️ #breathaspower #francewithestelle #costaricawithestelle #bhakti #wakingupmysoul
Lens: @jessieredmondphoto

Something’s coming.
Something’s brewing.
No more doubts.
No more hiding.
More singing.
More YOU.
💥 💥 💥 💥
Yours in feeling alive but from inside,
always.
E ⭐️ #sheisinme #soulconnection #youreit #thetimeisnow

🦁 Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.~ Osho
My DM’s blew up yesterday from a stories slide I thought nothing of when posting. It was a truthbomb from @thisisforthewomen and said: “If I say no to somebody and they get angry. It does not mean I shouldn’t have said yes.” It’s game-changer to recognize you have everything you could possibly need but inside you. @anneberube & I agree that it’s a pretty freeing thing to know! Like- all you need is what you have, right now. This doesn’t mean getting through a difficulty will be easy. But the more you listen to your inner lion, the brighter your spark and louder your roar gets.
Yours in shaking your mane, always.
E ⭐️ #allihave #allineed #abundance #boundaries #lion #durga #shakeshakeshake #yogaartmagic #yogaeverydamnday #costaricawithestelle #shinebright #shequestsummerschool #sheisinme #giantwithin #mytimetobeborn #movethatbody #movementismedicine #moveon #wakingupmysoul
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🧚🏼‍♀️ I was born on a small rolling hill in a rural hospital in Québec. Part of me has never left that little hill and part of me wants to rocket-ship fairy style around the world before it’s too late!! Perhaps one of the greatest grief induced phenomena is: not waiting.
Do the dreams, now. Love your life, now.
Life can turn upside down in an instant and you know it. What a gift to know this and live this.
Spreading pixie dust circa 1981 ✌🏻
Ma chère France..... yoga, art and abracadabra with you in only 10 days!!!!!! Je t’aime la vie!
E ⭐️ #yogaartmagic #estellethomsonart #estellethomsonyoga #bucketlist #tommytinkerforever #fuckitlist #lifeismeanttobelived #wanderlust #parisjetaime #sheisinme

I can feel my son in me forever, a vital part of me that never goes away.
Like dancers on a vast stage, no matter far he is away, the bond, the interplay is always there, the invisible thread of love, the chemical choreography of blood in the vein.
He is both my pupil and my teacher. For it is he who inducted me into the mysteries of mothering. I was surprised by my selfless, spontaneous loving and service, devotion and trust- a part of me that I’d never known otherwise. He is my truest mirror, my honest reflection, my most profound joy, the subject of my deepest fears. My child connects me the most primal parts of myself. I well up with his tears, I cringed with his pain, brighten with a smile, suffer with his disappointment… in grace.
In innocence.
In gratitude.
With you, I am finally me. ~Gabrielle Roth
Thanks to @elenabrower for sharing this passage many years ago. Words Ive always keep close for both Isaiah pictured here and my Tommy in the sky.
Love you in Mother’s Day & spontaneity, always.
E ⭐️ #tommytinkerforever #motherhoodrising #mothersaremagic #motherhoodthroughig #mothersday #motherhood #cowbaylove
Mothers are Magic tee is from @bee_and_mae !! Kickass sneakers from @proskates on Quinpool 👌🏻

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