Mom don’t leave me!
“Mom don’t leave me!”, Snow would scream and cry when she was three years old. Since birth, Snow has struggled with extreme anxiety. We spent and continue to spend endless hours discovering new ways to help her to wholeness and well health. One day, when she was four years old, her therapist ,“Laura Helper”, introduced us to the book Heart String by Brooke Boynton-Hughes, and from that moment we started to do a mindful visualization practice when she would feel separation anxiety to help her feel anchored, safe, and more regulated. She would;
Think of somone she loves.
Visualize her heart.
Visualize the loved one’s heart.
Visualize a string on her heart.
Imagine that it is connected to her loved one’s heart.
Whenever she felt anxious, afraid, or separation anxiety, she would pull on the string, tugging the connected heart.
Fast forward two years later, I attended a Mindful Living Summit workshop. During the workshop, a practicioner shared a mindful compassion exercise, in which you give yourself love and send someone dear to you some love. After that workshop, I decided to combine the heart string practice and mindful compassion practice. I wrote the song “I Love You”, which is on the album Triple E Philosophy, that Monroe Snow and I co-wrote.
Try it out! Let us know what you think. Let us know what they feel.
Be well. Be whole. Belong!
xx
Ms Maya
