When I Grow Up Part VII: Excavating!
Here it is! It has taken a while coming. The post it self has been written for ages but I needed to get comfortable sharing it. Sit with the fears of what people might think…and befriend them also. It is the next step for me in reclaiming my own wholeness and embodying what I speak of or teach when I do workshops in Mindfulness. We need to get comfortable with first of all learning to see all of ourselves…the parts that are hidden and most likely even outside of our own awareness for now. Eventually as we learn to see all of who we are, the acceptance will follow along and then we no longer need to hide anything to the world. Our living our own truth with courage is inspiration enough!
What excavating have you done in your life? What have you found? Send me your stories of courage!
“Encapsulated”! This really is a great sounding word. I heard it used last October when a reporter on CNN used it to describe the experience of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days before being rescued. Those of you who watched these events unfold will remember the care that was required in drilling a tunnel to reach the miners trapped more than 600 meters underground. Any false moves during this process could have resulted in a further disaster of the entire area perhaps collapsing on top of the trapped miners. Excavation needed to happen carefully and precisely to prevent further damage.
I have found that it sort of works the same way when we are doing our own personal excavating of our own lives.
Read MoreWhen I Grow Up Part VI – Telling The Truth!
Writing the truth is much harder than I ever thought it would be! It is much easier to face truth within the four walls of your therapist’s office or over coffee with your best friend. Truth and I have even gone so far as to tolerate and lately enjoy each other’s company in moments of silence with ourselves. Yet, writing the truth for the world to see and hear…this has been more than just slightly terrifying!
Read MoreWhen I Grow Up Part V – Embracing Process!
Yes, Yes, I know! I have been a bit remiss on posting this entire week! It’s not that I didn’t want to write but rather that I couldn’t. Didn’t have the energy to! Some of you might remember that I started this 30 day yoga challenge a couple of weeks ago and for the first time in my life, I have found something that is physically stretching me beyond my comfort zone and I am finding myself sticking to it! It has not been an easy week!
Read MoreWhen I Grow UP Part IV: Learning to Love and Live in Limbo!
Ok! So there you have it! If you read along so far expecting me to have it all figured out – sorry to disappoint, but I don’t. I am writing this live from the road remember…things are still in process and our work here is about learning to love the process...even if we have to start out with gritted teeth and clenched jaws and a stomach full of butterflies!
I am learning things along the way being “in process”. Like for example how challenging it is to give up socially acceptable labels that give you an identity and a pass to fit into the “normal people” club!
Read MoreTree Pose, Balance & Compassion …Random Roads to Healing & Awareness
Picture below…perhaps one view of the “elusive bridge” I refer to below…read on! Picture is from a place in Denmark that caught my attention this summer…now I know why!
I had no intentions of writing tonight! I am actually trying to recover from a trying week of changes and am taking a bit of a break from writing part IV of the “When I Grow Up” series of posts. More on that later!
The kids are back at school for another year and we are all adjusting to the new routine of a different way of life that comes with the freshness of a new season. On this journey I am constantly learning to embrace change, and learning to make tiny adjustments to my way of looking at and being with myself, the people and situations in my life. In a way, it’s sort of like Mother Nature with her changing seasons … nudging us all to let go and embrace the new, as just a part of life…to welcome it no matter how much we may be attached to the way things “are” or “were”.
It’s just not my kids that have gone back to school. It seems that the curriculum that I have been enrolled in at the University of Life just stepped up things a notch or two!
Read MoreWhen I Grow Up Part II: Forgetting How To Play!
In those days I ran around shoeless a lot! It was one of the few freedoms I knew!
I was a child…and children just needed to do what they’re told!
I grew up being plagued by these tenets! They haunted me during recess at school, on silent car rides home and times in between while I was busy forgetting how to play!
Read MoreWhen I Grow Up: Part 1
No one told me I could be a writer!
Or an artist, a creativity expert; a specialist in playing or an observer of internals worlds! In fact, no one told me that I could be anything I wanted to be in my own life. I don’t think we still explicitly tell our children that they own their life – do we?
Read MoreAn Ex-Corporate Junkie Comes Clean!
A seeker, a searcher, a sojourner on a path into the vastly undiscovered, unknown territory that makes up me, myself and I. Somewhat of an understated yet sometimes aggressive smartass who had to get lost to discover that she was searching. An ex-corporate junkie who for a long time was clueless and blinded by the "bling" of everyday distractions to notice all the hooks, the hookers or the hooked, never mind the artificial highs and depressing lows. Am I clean now? Read more About Me and keep coming back ...I’ll come clean!
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