My Teachers

When you sign up for healing, there are a lot of people that help you along the way.

Most teachers and supporters show up right when you are looking for a sign or a way forwards. Meg Berryman is a wise woman in her early 40’s who came forwards to me right when I needed some support.

She lives far away from me and we have never seen each other in the flesh, which feels wild to me. How can I have such a special connection to someone when I haven’t even met her?! Well, it turns out you can and I have. Meg enlightens me in so many ways and she is who really helped me turn the corner when it came to my confidence, trusting myself and the wisdom of my body.

Here’s a very special piece of writing from her from her Substack. I loved it, have shared it widely with friends, and wanted to have it here on my website as a constant reminder of how far I have come.

Love, Cherie

This Body by Meg Berryman

When I realised that

This body

This overly sensitive

Awkwardly proportioned body

was not betraying me …

But instead was showing me

All the places I – as a product of my culture –

Was betraying her

Gaslighting her

Manipulating and coercing her

To be more productive

Less emotional

More robotic

Less fluid and seasonal …

That is when I realised that

She was not pushing me away

But rather calling me home.

That she was not the cause of my suffering

But the antidote to it.

I realise now that in disconnecting from her

I may have created some sort of temporary respite

From the human discomfort that torments our cells

And yet

In the disconnection I found no solace

Instead, I felt untethered

Not just from my organs and my bones and my tissues

But from the very fabric of life itself

I stopped being able to feel earth under foot

My breath shallow

Cold and alone with my thoughts alone.

Who would have thought

That in reclaiming the messy terrain within

I would find – not as I had feared –

oblivion

But instead that I would find

liberation.

The likes of which could reconnect all humans

To themselves

to their kin

And to their magic earthly home.

FREE MEDITATION

Let’s breathe together, relax deeply, and reconnect with the nature surrounding us.