What on Earth Is Happening, Momma? (3 of 7)

Written and posted by Jackie Olmstead, Sun, Dec 14, 2025

“You’re a workaholic, Jackie.” said my mom several times in my life. I hear many of her quotes come to me during the days since she has passed. She has passed on to me her legacy of wisdom, beauty, joy of life. I am so grateful that I had her as my mom. Her latest download to me is “See? Everything is ok, babe.” 

Her spirit shows me things about myself and I feel her guiding me every day in my own healing journey. I feel her smiling down on me and the beautiful planet we are so blessed to live on with great love. 

This isn’t a post about her specifically, no, this post is about all of us and YOU. It took me a year to get back to you, but I have been thinking about you and what we are all experiencing this year. 

My goal today is to teach you one very valuable super powerful tool in my own healing process and that which I teach to my own clients and what I still use today. 

The planet has been shifting in grand ways, I am sure you have noticed. If you haven’t either you have been riding this massive wave of consciousness shift with ease OR you live somewhere where nothing feels majorly crucial except for your own self growth and you figure, “this is normal life”. 

I can tell you that all the teachers I follow and even the people I would never think of are talking about our shift into our own greatness and truth. 

Truth is key here, momma. In my lifetime journey of healing I see and experience the quintessential “onion” peeling as they told us about in therapy. I always would say, “oh yes, of course that is how it is.” Logically, of course that made sense to my 21 year-old-self just getting sober, for example. 

When I stopped drinking alcohol in 1990, it was the beginning of my clean living journey to becoming who I am today, the Earth Momma, who shows others how it is to be living in a clean vessel. 

Why does it even matter, you ask? Let me point to your body. Let me ask you if you feel free in your life right now, having sovereignty in living with or without prescription drugs, disease that you say you just will normally get. 

I bet that you don’t even remember what it felt like to be free of that stuff, if you even ever did. This is key. If you don’t remember, it means that you have accepted your current state as normal. This is normal. It’s adapting so that it makes our current situation tolerable.

Are you able to think of a time when you were young when you would be playing outside with your friends? Or laying in the grass just staring at the sky and guessing what shapes you could see in the sky? These are free kind of moments that I cherish from when I was little.

Being able to laugh so hard that you cried, peed your pants and were able to just completely freely be yourself. When I find friends who I can do this with now, I hold on to them. 

Truthseeker, you shall find who you truly are. This is what I and others are experiencing right now. 

Dreams, visions, quiet moments of truth about myself and others come to me often. Writing about them in my journal helps me to sort out what it all means. 

Over the years, I’ve learned that this kind of writing isn’t just something intuitive people stumble into on their own. Many therapists and researchers have noticed that when we write freely and allow different parts of ourselves to speak, it helps the nervous system settle and brings clarity to emotions that don’t respond well to logic alone. 

Some therapeutic approaches even invite people to write or speak directly to their “parts” or younger selves as a way of healing old wounds and creating inner safety. What I love is that it doesn’t require fancy language or a diagnosis—just honesty, curiosity, and a willingness to listen. 

This approach shows up in many healing traditions, modern therapies, and creative practices across cultures, often under different names but with the same heart. This isn’t something you need to understand perfectly—it’s something you feel your way into.

The tool I mentioned previously is my writing exercise that I do in order to understand a part of myself that needs to be heard. When I first did this exercise years ago, I had about six parts of me that needed to talk to my “parent/adult” self. 

When we don’t feel heard when we were children, that part of ourselves gets tucked away and nags quietly or sometimes loudly as adults and we don’t get why we are having troubles. Also, I find it very important for myself to NOT get too clinical or psychology-heavy in this exercise. 

Here are some steps that I use for this very introspective writing (you can also speak the words that you are writing and it might help you connect more)::

1. Get out some paper or your journal where you can freely write. Scribble, write however the part of you who is talking would write. 
2. Keep it simple by starting a conversation (like a play) with you as adult/parent and one part of yourself that is needing to talk or who you need to talk to.
3. Know that it’s normal if other voices want to “talk” or write to you too and start to chat. It might seem confusing at first to sense these other voices while writing to the first one. 
4. Be your own parent and tell the other ones that you will have a chance to talk to them later and ask them if is that ok. This is all about you and how you would talk to these parts of yourself with compassion and loving words.
5. Be sure to end the writing session if you have to end it before feeling finished. I usually say things like, “I will be back in a couple days to talk again. I thank you for being open and honest about how you are feeling today. Thank you for just being you.” Also, if that part of you is the four year old, be sure to use four year old type of language. 

As you can imagine it would be very helpful to have someone to sit with you or to have someone to touch base with who you trust with very personal and private conversations. At first, that is how I did it with my former coach. She was extremely supportive and was an excellent guide in this process. 

I discovered many things within my “selves” that I would never have heard if I hadn’t written it and had this conversation on paper (and out loud as I wrote). Writing quickly helped my brain to not kick in and start to second guess what I was writing.

Here’s a little bit of example writing and then I will wrap this up:

P (parent self): Hey Scared self, I wanted to chat a little. Are you open to talking a little? How are you?

Scared self: Yeah I guess.

P: So I’ve been trying to get my writing done for my blog and there’s something seeming to hold me back and I’m wondering if it’s something you might be having doubts about?

S: Yeah. I don’t like to be so open to the world.

P: Really? Why? ……

That’s just a really quick example that might help you see my own style of talking to parts of myself. I encourage you to try it. It’s very healing because in the dialogue with yourself you will be able to truly be your own best friend. Right now, this is one of the best things we can do for ourselves while we are transitioning into our new world!

Have a most blessed day, momma!

Namaste, Earth Momma