Eve Rituals Blog

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the phrase “She let herself go.” Maybe it was said about a woman who gained weight. Or let her hair go gray. Or stopped wearing makeup. Or traded her heels for crocs. Maybe you’ve even thought “wow, I really let myself go” when you caught your reflection in the mirror and see an older, more tired version of yourself then you remember. I keep wondering, where did this phrase even came from? And what is it asking us to hold onto?

We hear it all the time “release what's no longer serving you” But what does it mean? Turns out, its not as simple as pushing a button and deleting a file. Then we think we’re doing it wrong because we’ve tried to let go of the same damn thing fifty times. Or we feel ashamed that an old wound resurfaces even after years of therapy, yoga, rituals, journaling, whatever. We assume letting go should be clean, instant, and linear… and when it’s not, we label ourselves as failure