Don’t allow people to cut you down.

This message is inviting you to nurture and protect your energy.

Thorns: This card in this message is speaking to me about “fake love”.  We often give our hearts, our joy and light to those we love and sometimes get nothing in return.  We slowly lose ourselves around certain people who don’t see us, value us and respect us, we build up walls of defences we lose our light, our voice and energy. And often, when they come back with the rose, an offering of change and love we take them back, we think they will change and try harder, but over time they repeat the same patterns and we become disappointed and hurt once again. We give chance after chance but when is enough, enough?

Some places and people, over time changes us, we stop dressing up, we stop laughing, we stop speaking to protect ourselves, we stop doing what brings us joy, while when we surround ourselves in the right environment and with the right people we shine, our smile comes back, our spark for life returns.

Trust: This card shows learning to trust in your own judgement, to maybe release those who drain you. To start putting yourself first and as your top priority. To nurture your heart and body with self care and love. To free yourself.  To stand rooted and strong in your own authority and boundaries.

you will know who drains you, who sucks the life out of you, who dismisses your feelings and boundaries and it is all very good being the “bigger person” or being empathic to those around you, but anyone and anything that cuts you down, who pushes you into the shadows, whose words and actions emotionally hurt you no matter who they are to you, trust in good intentions and false ones. If someone’s absence brings you peace, that is all you need to know about your relationship with them. And for your own wellbeing, health and heart…..is it time to prune the thorns from your life?

And believe me I know, I’ve had family and relationships that mirror this, to know it’s far from easy to distance and find space but I’ve learnt physical health shows up when we tolerate this type of behaviour for too long, we don’t recognise ourselves in the mirror anymore and there comes a point where you get to decide no more. You taking your power back.

Reflection:

Observe who and what drain you and causes you to shrink yourself, how can you distance yourself from them, even for a little while, you don’t have to be cold or rude but simply to protect your own energy and wellbeing?