Navel of the Earth

Navel of the Earth

A Journey Through Loneliness

Finding our way back to love

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Ashley River
Aug 08, 2023
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I recently completed my training in Soul Regression to integrate reweaving from soul memory more directly into my client work. Though I have worked with past lives and soul history for quite some time, the modality I studied and the power of stepping into this work more fully has been profound.

When I started offering my Soul Regression sessions, there was a significant theme with nearly every person I have journeyed through time with that I have been really sitting with and wanting to speak more on: Loneliness.

It’s no surprise we are in a loneliness epidemic. Separation has plagued us for centuries and lifetimes due to rejection, religion, politics, colonialism, and other patriarchal war games. But I often reflect on how our digital age, comparison culture, unhealed ancestral trauma, and the massive consciousness divide these create only make people feel more alone in modern times.

Aloneness has been a theme for me, too, in recent years. At this time, I am coming up on two years single, the longest I have been without a relationship or consistently dating in my adult life. I love my own company and being alone; I actually thrive in it. My loneliness actually doesn’t come from the fact that I am single at all, and being alone is seldom the root cause of loneliness.

There is a big difference between being alone and loneliness, and I only realized this after my retreat last year.

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