Balance

The power we give our words.

The spin we put on our life occurrences and perceptions with the language we choose to describe them.

We throw out words..

nouns, verbs, adjectives that lock us in unknowingly to continue our groundhog day.

For example 

BALANCE.

In our culture, balance is something we try to achieve by spinning our plates so nothing falls. Ensuring that all of our dysfunction looks tidy and organized into a certain acceptable package. 

Yet true balance...

is using those emotions and challenges to catapult us out of stuckness.

 No repackaging.

 Letting it rise up and move through. 

To use our ups and downs, our highs and lows as wake up calls to bring us back to center. 

Another fave

UNRAVELING

An idea that frightens us to our core.

 Our facades are cracking..

we are losing it...

we can't do it anymore....

Unraveling is the greatest gift I found.

Unraveling finally means finally taking it all down. 

All those years of leaning to the left, ducking to the right to stay stuck and in pain so no one could see me.

 Safe sweet spots that hurt.

A final unwinding of those layers of veils and labels that defined me 

layers from judgements, fear, mistakes, pain and an endless search.

The unraveling, with all its pain, reveals the true self.

clean and pure...

that has been quietly waiting to be revealed..

all this time...

And on the floor I step out from the old suit I no longer need..

peer over my shoulder

smile gently at the floor.

A deep breath

 I walk forward whistling a happy tune

into that vast empty space waiting for the real ME to fill it