I'm going to invite you to close your eyes,
Place both your hands over your heart as we start taking some beautiful nourishing breaths.
Coming into this moment,
I call upon the beautiful goddess.
Beautiful goddess,
I call to you.
Surround me with light,
Steady and true.
Wrap me in love,
Safe and sound.
Whisper your wisdom so I may stand my ground.
I invite you to breathe in that light,
That beautiful white light from the universe.
Just breathing it in,
Feeling it wrapping around you like a warm blanket.
Feeling its energies connecting us here together.
It's the energy that keeps us safe,
The energy that protects us.
As we breathe it in,
Breathing it into our hearts,
Breathing it into our mind,
Breathing it into our souls.
As I invite you now to grab your cacao,
Holding your cup in your hands as we take a moment to pay gratitude to this beautiful plant medicine.
Thank you,
Mama Cacao,
For your divine gift that we are about to receive.
With deep respect and gratitude,
We thank the ancestors who protected the lands on which your sacred gift has grown for centuries.
We thank the farmers and families who continue to tend to your deep roots so that we may be blessed with this medicine here today.
Thank you,
Mother Earth,
For holding this medicine in your embrace,
Keeping her safe as she grew.
Thank you to the water for nourishing and cleansing her and the air for the breath of life that you blew through her leaves and the sun for keeping her warm.
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you.
We receive this gift with an open heart and welcome the insights and whispered wisdoms from Mama Cacao as she guides and supports us here tonight.
So just taking a moment to breathe in that beautiful aroma of your cacao,
Perhaps even placing your cacao against your chest so that you can feel the warmth radiating into your heart space.
Tonight's theme is all about embracing our hot mess goddess.
And as we breathe in that aroma of our cacao,
Our intention is to give ourselves permission to show up exactly as we are.
So you might perhaps want to take a moment to breathe in that aroma and breathe out that intention,
Sending it directly back into your cup.
Tonight I give myself permission to show up exactly as I am by breathing that intention into our cups.
We create a space that connects our breath,
Our intention and our cacao together.
Tonight I give myself permission to show up exactly as I am.
With this cup of cacao,
We gather together to meet every part of ourselves.
The messy parts,
The tired,
The frayed,
The overwhelmed and the unsure parts.
Tonight nothing needs to change.
Cacao is here to hold us,
Not to fix us.
Our first sip together is for the parts of you that feel overwhelmed,
That feel tired.
We sip and we embrace that overwhelm.
As you feel the energy of that first sip entering your body,
Taking a moment to breathe into your heart,
Just say to yourself,
I don't need to be perfect to be worthy.
I don't need to be perfect to be worthy.
Just breathe into that energy,
Recognising the overwhelm,
Recognising those messy parts,
Acknowledging the tiredness.
It's okay not to be okay.
With our second sip together,
This is for the part of you that is still showing up anyway.
You're here,
You're present and you're trying.
And we sip for showing up.
And as you breathe into your heart,
Feeling that sip entering your body,
Just say to yourself,
Even in the mess,
I am guided.
Even in the mess,
I am guided.
Just breathe into that energy,
That energy of showing up,
Of being guided to be here.
To show up in whatever way you can.
And our third sip together is for the part of us that knows that this season will pass.
We sip for just this moment,
This season that will come and will go.
And as you breathe into the energy of that sip,
Just say to yourself,
I trust this season of my becoming.
I trust this season of my becoming.
Breathing into that energy.
Knowing that storms don't last forever.
Knowing that this time,
If you are feeling messy,
If you're feeling tired,
If you're feeling overwhelmed or unsure,
It will not last forever.
Trust in the guidance,
Trust in the showing up,
Trust in yourself.
To rest,
To take time out.
And the season will change.
Just breathing into your heart.
And as you continue to sip your cacao,
Taking a moment to acknowledge the mess,
Pay gratitude to yourself for showing up,
And know that it will not last forever.
It's okay to be a hot mess.
It's okay to be a hot mess.
Embrace it like a goddess.
Embrace it like a goddess.
Own your story,
Own your pain.
If you get it,
Life can't take away what brought you here today.
From breakdown to breakthrough,
Thank you universe,
Thank you.
No one's perfect,
No one's less.
We're all a little tangled in the stress.
Hot mess,
Yes.
Still a goddess nonetheless.
Goddess in this mess.
I'm showing up,
I'm showing up,
I'm showing up.
I'm showing up,
I'm showing up,
I'm showing up,
I'm showing up.
So just breathing into that energy.
Embracing that hot mess goddess.
It's okay to show up messy.
To show up tired.
The key is to just show up.
So I'm going to invite you to make yourself nice and comfortable.
Closing your eyes if they're not already closed as we feel the cacao running through our bodies.
Placing one hand over your heart.
You can feel your heart,
You can feel the support here tonight.
As we all show up.
Messy.
Fearless.
Worthy.
Enough.
Breathing into that energy.
Let me take a moment to imagine that you are sitting in a quiet forest clearing.
Safe and protected.
And across from you in this clearing appears an apparition of yourself.
Looking exactly how your energy feels when you are not at your peak.
Notice their eyes.
Notice their posture.
Notice their aura.
Notice their energy.
See their mess.
See their tiredness.
See your mess.
See your tiredness in this vision before you.
You're not here to judge it.
You're just noticing it.
Now imagine embracing this vision.
And whispering to yourself.
I see you.
I am you.
I love you.
You don't need to hold it all together here.
This vision of you smiles.
She smiles in relief.
As she starts to let go.
And slowly dissolves into light.
This is a light that flows back into your chest.
Allowing you to embrace your mess with compassion.
Because we don't leave it behind.
It's okay to not be okay.
It's okay to be a hot mess.
Own your mess.
Own your hot mess goddess.
And learn to give yourself the grace during these times of overwhelm.
Just breathing into your heart.
As you feel that light within you.
That love.
That support.
That compassion.
Taking a moment.
To thank yourself for showing up here tonight just as you are.
Your presence.
Messy.
Real.
Human.
Is always enough.
Taking a moment.
To breathe into your heart.
To be soft and gentle with yourself.
To acknowledge that mess one last time.
And know that it's okay.
It's okay to be human.
It's okay to be real.
It's okay to not be okay.
Thank you and blessed be.
