Cacao as a Healer for our Times

As the inadequacy of modern society’s systemic structures is starting to show more and more, and the main models are ever more clearly starting to crack, disintegration is becoming imminent. As contemporary western culture learns to mature, attune and listen more deeply to the subtle - and ever less subtle - cries of our planet, the tragedy and wounds of our ancestors’ choices become tangible and real. Ready to be worked with and addressed by those of us able and willing.

The hurt, sadness and grief for how humans (as fractals of the systemic bull sh..t we were raised in) have been bulldozing the planet’s and their own bodies’ feelings, omens and signals, is surfacing more powerfully than ever before. I’m seeing it in the personal realities of people all over the world, as well as in the Earth body that is shivering, shaking, releasing, burning and purging… Flooding itself with the tears of hurts long forgotten by its children, so that they would listen and reclaim what is theirs to heal and transform now. The messaging is loud and clear. What more does it take to listen?

As a sensitive and empathic child growing up in an industrialized country, I have felt for a long time already how detrimental the consensus reality was for my soul. Even though I’m grateful to have received beautiful foundations, taxpayer-paid quality education, and many other things supportive to my wellbeing through the socio-political model in Belgium, it’s becoming increasingly clear how deeply unsatisfying and unsustainable the produce/consume/discard-based societal models are to our Earth and to humanity itself.

The contemporary way of living, or at least the way that that many humans live in the modern societies, is on its way to disintegration. What will come next, nobody knows. Only through embracing the sadness, grief, hurt, fear - and all the rest - will we be able to understand what the rightful way for humans on Earth will be in times to come.

As the world will shape itself through this process, how can we remain in tune with ourselves and with our own empowered truth? AND, also be agents of change, supporting a new, Earth-based culture to grow, recycled from the crumbling mess of a world which was never made for humans to really be human in?

For a number of years already, I’ve been making choices to allow my life to flow in a way that is nourishing to my soul, supportive to my system and to my being’s creative expression. To be honest, since 2014 already I’ve been on an ongoing journey embracing my emotions of grief, resentment, anger, fear, etc. related to the pain of growing up in a western society as a free spirit. An incredible help on this path – yes, even a catalyst for it – has been the ceremonial Cacao medicine.

Cacao is a subtle yet powerful medicine. It invites us to create a space to simply be deeply present to what is. It offers a whole other layer of experience and depth to the most ‘basic’ activities. She helps us to think less, and feel more. Once we become capable of witnessing and moving with what is alive in the present moment, many gifts are available to us in a much simpler and a much more accessible way than we may think. Cacao has helped me tremendously to be able to create spaces to welcome deeply what is alive in this moment, without needing to micromanage or understand. Afterwards, often times things start to make sense. But the true power of transformation lies in being able to navigate with awareness the mystery of what’s available in every moment.

Through tending to the emotions, and deeply engaging with the challenges and invitations from life as they came up, I have come to an increasing understanding of what it is that this planet wants and needs from me, and how I can be of service to this world, in alliance with Cacao as a plant teacher. Over time, I started to get clearer on what my real needs are, and I’ve also started to understand that a lot of my turn-on and excitement in life is related to being of service to this transforming world.

As the digital revolution is soaring, there’s an increasing tendency for our lives to become mind-based, and less and less about tending to our bodies and the Earth. Nonetheless, it’s through deep connection with our bodies that the Earth speaks to us. It’s through tending to the precious day to day, hands-on experiences of natural life that we get to feel – and BE - the true creative magic as it unfolds in the present moment. It’s through our sensitivity and presence in the body that we can be intimately attuned to what life wants to bring to us, through us, as a powerful human walking this Earth in honor and gratitude. As long as we run with patterns of disengaging and escaping the ‘ugly’ feelings in us, all of this power and precious, wholesome expression of our full humanity remains unavailable.

In my work as a transformational space holder, Cacao has been a tremendous gift to help me go deep, and *move* with the full spectrum of feelings and emotions available. Cacao continues to offer an amazingly clear and conscious space for witnessing, expressing and integrating parts of me that are hurt, forgotten, blemished, unseen.

As a natural result of this beautiful and empowering process, and using the gifts that I received from tending to my feelings with Cacao’s support and assistance, I created a training program that specifically aims for people who want to dive deep with Cacao to be able to do so in a way that is and deeply inviting the full capacity of this gorgeous, versatile plant teacher.

Come journey with us in Cacao Ceremony during our upcoming the Shamanic Kink Immersion, in a held space open to your expression of stored emotions so that you may feel more liberated... Learn to tune in ever more deeply to the subtle and less subtle currents of life force moving through you, and help holding others in their truest expression and offering deep containment, supported by the potent plant healer of Cacao. Read more below <3