"wherever you go, there you are"
This saying is everything to me. I seem to get on my website only when I have something really important to say. Which I like, because I believe in the importance of listening when you don’t have something of value to add to a conversation or an online space such as this one.
Today is a good day. But in between all of the good days are hard ones, and normal ones too. Every moment of my life is an opportunity to choose joy, while still feeling every ounce of pain. Both are valid. Both are worthwhile. Both are necessary.
When days like this happen I want to reach up into the clouds and hug them with all of my being. I want to slide down a mountain side or dance on the sun. That is my form of worship. My form of gratitude. Life is a crazy mess of emotions, and feelings, and experiences, and it’s so beautiful I could cry. Heart heaving open with so much pride for all of the decisions and choices that have led me to exactly where I am now. Heart heaving open with so much pride for not listening to the voices that tried to tell me otherwise. I am proud of the woman I am becoming, love coursing through my veins, and that is the greatest feeling in the world.
All of this wouldn’t be possible though without pain. Without doubt, and fear, and anxiety, and depression, and all of the things that everyone experiences, but is too afraid to speak. I gave myself my power back when I spoke truth in the form of vulnerability. One of the greatest tools that I have in my toolbox. One of my highest values.
A list of thoughts from yours truly on how to embrace everything:
BE WITH YOUR FEELINGS
Embrace the power of vulnerability
Feeling or Fact?
Send your love to your inner child
Surround yourself with people who understand, accept, support, love, and see you for who you really are and the person that you are becoming
Remember that you are love eternal. A flame that will never flicker. A light. A joy. A ray of sunshine. You are worthy of everything.
That’s all I have for now.
All my love,
Onward.
-m