creating change without shouting
It takes courage to own our stories of struggle. Not making them into a melodrama, but recognising the truth that life isn’t always easy. And neither are we. These stories start with us looking in the mirror and choosing not to airbrush the imperfections. Nor making excuses, but instead choosing to love and be loved. … Read more
Our longings are for what is out of reach. And our yearning is only in absence, not in fullness. Yet naming is a courageous act of vulnerability. It’s a vital first step of embodiment, a means of making real what we need. So I wonder what we might need to name in becoming whole?
Avoidance or inquiry,the choice is ours;curiosity or fear,we decide;protection or compassion,the way of our heart;open or closed,choose courage.
Partway through the week, I found the word to describe what I was sensing. Rawness. Like when everything you touch feels like sandpaper, coarse and uncomfortable. A painful edge that you can’t define enough to do anything about. It was in the air, both here and around the world. I sensed it for others and … Read more
Words from the poet John O’Donohue for times such as these. For all the explorers, for those who know they cannot stay where they are and those determined to start out again. FOR COURAGE When the light around you lessensAnd your thoughts darken untilYour body feels fear turnCold as a stone inside, When you find … Read more
For those times when we gather up all our courage and wonder if it is enough to take the BIG step: We aren’t left hanging,it only feels that way.Lift your footover the lineand step… You only get there onceyour other foot hasleft the groundwhere youwere standing. Or in the words of William Hutchinson Murray: Until … Read more