Dr. Julia Colangelo 𖣠 Flow Educator & Writer 🌊 Lahaina, Maui

This month marks one year of being a dadless daughter.

One year this month since I lost my sweet, loving, kind dad. The carpenter and artist, waterman and sea glass finder who measured twice and cut once as any woodworker would, and who taught me that precision is a form of love. He taught me that you measure twice because the material deserves your attention, that you can build something that outlasts you if you’re willing to be patient with the wood.

And I was one of those lucky daughters to also have a beloved stepdad who raised me, and who passed away 6 years ago today.

I’ve spent seventeen years teaching people about the nervous system and I still wasn’t ready for what grief does to one. How the body keeps absorbing. Your nervous system reads coming alive and coming apart as the same event. Both are activation. Both are the system saying, this matters, stay with it.

The ocean taught me this before the science did. Water receives what enters the water. Water takes in the light, keeps what the depths need, and returns the rest as the most beautiful color we have a name for.

So if your aliveness looks like loss this month, you’re doing what water does. Absorbing what’s heavy. Returning what’s light. Becoming blue.

If you want to sit with this in your own body, here’s where I’d begin:

What is your July absorbing this year, and what is your July returning?

Where in your body do you feel aliveness and grief sharing the same frequency?

What have you survived that turned into something beautiful only after the absorption was complete?

Gentle reminder to myself today on this anniversary as we start to prepare for August: I’m still here. I’m still blue. Both things are true, and both things are alive.

I’d you’re in the blue: you are alive, I see you and something beautiful is on the horizon.
Reshare with love 🌊✨

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Julia