Heart Medicine
Hello beautiful soul,
Autumn is here, bringing with it a natural invitation to slow down and turn inward. This month, we’ll be exploring the energy and wisdom of the heart. But, before we do I want to start by saying THANK YOU. Thank you for reading our blog, thank you for sharing our work with your friends and family, and thank you for trusting us to walk alongside your healing.
The heart is more than muscle. It is the chamber of love, grief, and memory. It is the wellspring of love, compassion, and connection. The heart is where we give and receive love, where our deepest truths reside. When our hearts are open, life flows through us like light. When they close, love struggles to move, and we begin to feel the ache of separation, from ourselves, from others, and from the Divine.
When it falters, it may be whispering truths we’ve ignored or haven’t had the time of skill to navigate. Perhaps, you have carried too much; worries, sorrow, grief that wasn’t yours alone, loneliness and beyond. Perhaps you have held love back, or given it when your soul was empty. Whatever might be true for you, is you’re to tend to.
From a healing perspective, physical heart conditions often mirror emotional or spiritual disconnection. When love is blocked or denied, the heart grows weary. It longs for expression, for tenderness, for release. We often view the heart from a medical lens, let’s explore it from a different lens.
Congestion as Emotional Heaviness
When the heart feels congested, it may be holding more than it can bear. Congestive heart failure, on an emotional level, can symbolize the weight of unprocessed emotion, the burdens we’ve carried for others, the responsibilities we’ve shouldered without rest, the fears that have become familiar companions. It speaks to a life lived in overextension, where worry and duty eclipse rest and joy.
Beneath the physical strain, there is often a heart yearning to breathe again, to soften, to rest, to be held. It may be carrying not just personal pain but the echoes of ancestral grief, stories passed down through generations that were never given voice. Healing begins when we allow the heart to exhale, to release the sorrow it has carried alone.
When the Heart Cries Out: Sudden Events and Awakening
Sudden heart events, like a heart attack, can arrive as a profound interruption, the body’s urgent plea to slow down, listen, and realign. In these moments, the soul may be calling us back to what truly matters. They often mark a threshold, a breaking open, where life invites us to reevaluate our relationships, our choices, and the way we’ve been living.
These experiences can awaken what has been suppressed: grief, anger, longing, or the quiet voice of our true self. The heart, in its wisdom, asks us to return to presence, to love, and to the sacred pulse of our own aliveness.
The Power of Self-Love and Boundaries
The heart weakens when we neglect our own needs, silence our truth, or give endlessly without receiving. When we suppress our vulnerability or avoid feeling our heartbreak, we begin to close off from the very essence that keeps us alive, connection.
So now what? How do we tend to the heart?
Heart work is sacred. To us within the collective, it's soul work.
We know it hurts.
And it is not broken.
It is not something to fix, it is something to feel.
We know heart work requires courage. It takes grit.
True healing begins when we turn toward ourselves with tenderness. When we listen to our emotional truth, when we set boundaries that honour our energy, when we let ourselves feel rather than numb. Love is not meant to be sacrifice, it is meant to flow, to nourish, to expand.
To care for the heart is to let it be both strong and soft. To let grief move through. To forgive. To love again, beginning with yourself. I wonder what loving yourself fiercely, like you really mean it might look like?
Heart Medicine Writing Practice
Your heart has carried so much love, loss, longing, and light.
It has broken open and kept beating.
It has protected you and guided you, even when you couldn’t hear its whisper.
We invite you to turn toward it.
Place your hand over your chest and feel its steady rhythm.
Breathe with it, the way two old friends might breathe together after a long separation.
Then, write.
Write a love letter to your heart.
Let your words be gentle and real.
Tell your heart what you see in it.
Apologize if you’ve ignored it.
Thank it for staying.
Forgive it for being human.
Promise to listen more closely.
This is not a letter to fix or heal, it’s a letter to remember.
To remember the sacred pulse within you, and the truth that you are love, still.
Tending to the heart is potent work
It is alchemy.
It is love.
It is how your heart transforms its pain into wisdom.
It is not weakness.
It is listening.
It is the alchemy of pain into compassion.
Healing the heart is not only medicine, it is presence, feeling, and love returning home. Curious to go deeper…try the meditation below. Let us know how it goes!
Love you, mean it, you beautiful being!
Rhea, Andrea and Tia xo