Finding Comfort in Troubling Times Whether Personal or Global #58
Finding Comfort in Troubling Times Whether Personal or Global #58
Simple things that make a big difference
Dear Lovely You,
everyone deserves to rest. Indeed everyone needs to rest. Your nervous system needs to be nourished and nurtured.
I've been wondering what you need to hear now in your current situation.
I've been wondering what you need to hear to give you strength.
I've been wondering what you need to hear to remind you how resilient and resourceful you are.
I've been wondering what you need to hear.
I've been wondering if I tell you you are a wonder of nature and worthy of love and support would you hear me?
Would you truly and deeply be able to embody these words and make them yours?
I want you to know how loved you are.
I want you to know that the people who truly love you want to help you.
Will you let them?
Will you let yourself be held?
Not to fix you or change anything but to hold you and accept you just as you are in the here and now.
A messy mush.
Whether broken, or broke down or broke open.
Tired, exhausted defeated.
Frustrated, angry, explosive.
Let them hold you.
They don't even need to understand.
They still love you for you.
There's no need for over analysis. There's no need to drag up the past all the time.
Shake it off.
Be who you are now because you are perfect and whole.
When was the last time you truly felt like yourself?
Free and bountiful and boundless?
Dear one,
you need to rest.
You need to play.
You need to create.
You need to breathe in fresh air and touch some leaves or trees.
You need to walk and run and skip when you feel like it.
You need time on your own to reflect and discover some peace of mind.
You need time with loved ones who truly care. To share. To laugh. To gather and eat.
It’s Okay to Be You.
It's okay to cry. It's okay to scream. It's okay to shout. It's okay to get things wrong.
It's okay to say no. It's okay to be selfish. It's okay to make your life how you want it.
It's okay to not always compromise.
It's okay to prioritise your own wants, needs and desires.
It’s okay to prioritise your life how you want it.
It's okay to be you.
To embrace the you that's been suppressed, repressed, unexpressed.
And allow all of you to come to the table unedited.
It’s true you'll make mistakes but these happen anyway, regardless of which part you choose to play.
It’s true not everyone will like or love this fully expressed you but neither does everyone like/love the pretender.
It's time to let go of your shield, shake off your armour and reinstate your True Self.
With firm boundaries and a soft heart.
She's been waiting in the wings a long time. Afraid of your cutting judgements of her. Hurt by your rejection.
But together you make an invincible team.
No matter what you say or do or who you be
You Are Good Enough.
Good enough for you.
Good enough for your family.
Good enough for your friends.
Good enough for this planet and this life.
Change your expectations and you change your experience of your life.
A change of expectation doen’t necessarily mean lowering your expectations.
It can simply mean different choices or priorities.
But which priorities are you really living your life by?
Life is precious. Time is precious
The choices you make create your life.
Prioritise wisely.
Be discerning in what you choose to do with your time and who you choose to spend it with.
Stop and smell the honeysuckle.
Don't be afraid to stop and do nothing at all.
Your nervous system needs that time to settle. Time to recalibrate. Time to adapt to new situations and circumstances.
Your soul, your heart if you like, wants to sing, wants to dance in the only way your soul can.
It wants to light up, explore, learn, create in the only way it can.
It wants to be untethered.
Unshackled from old ways of being and thinking.
Unbound, free to roam and explore and experience new things
to find its element.
And it wants and needs to rest in the spaces between.
It wants to run and sleep and dart here and there trying new things.
It wants to get back those child-like qualities.
Before curiosity was whithered away.
Before delight in simple things was discounted.
Before joy in the simplest things was belittled.
Before it had been told a hundred times
in a hundred different ways that it was a burden.
Before it was told it would have to pay its way.
Before the weight of responsibility sucked it dry.
Banished its vibrance.
And shamed its light.
Before it forgot who it is
to become what it thought it had to be.
Your heart, your soul wants to be free to express its full being through you.
With Love
from My True Self to Yours
Karen xx
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