Have you noticed feeling any overwhelm this past week?
The climate might have something to do with that.
With 24-7 real-time access to politics, natural disaster, and crisis around the world, is it any wonder that our big emotions 🤬 run roughshod over the quieter ones - the ones that feel scared and grief stricken?😥
Would it be any surprise then if we collapsed?
🍭Retreated into our child's bag of valentine candy (Ya got me!);
🛌 Stayed in bed for the better part of the morning (Oh hi, 👋🏼 me again );
💻 Or yelled at inanimate objects (Yeah, That's right, Excel spreadsheet, I'm looking at you! WTF is your problem, dude?!)
I GET YOU.
I cried twice today while doing my taxes, then ate half-a-dozen (stolen) Twix-Snickers-Milky-Way Minis and a 🍬 Lindor chocolate.
My nervous system needed a moment to collapse.
A necessary break, but not a permanent one.
The two months before my husband died was a non-stop Four-Alarm-fire.
During that time I discovered a Center inside of my storm.
It wasn't a false center - with the appearance of calm.
No, inside of that place was the real thing.
Inside of that Center, I stood in the truth of who I really was.
Inside the Center, I believed in possibilities and I knew I would not stop until I found them.
That's what I can offer you:The abundance of possibilities at the Center of this very moment, and 💪🏽 the conviction that nothing matters more then finding them.
Nothing.
The Center, like all good things, takes a little practice to recognize and more practice to build your pathway to it so you can find it easily again and again and again.
💗I'm practicing right now.
I could have continued to collapse, bought a bottle of wine, said "yes" to a distraction, or moped around in the detritus of my taxes and candy wrappers.
Instead, I practiced.
I made a cup of tea, ate an entire grapefruit cold from the fridge (is there anything better?) and grabbed a copy of Presence by Amy Cuddy and got ready to reach coach a group.🌤️
Because I have work to do!
And it starts with the truth inside of me.
What is true for you?
Do you want to know?
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