Preach sister! I am horrible at uncomfortable - I try to fix it all, make a sad joke about it, or just hide in my hole...but this is so true. Hard things happen, and when we are uncomfortable and challenged, that is when we grow and learn. Best thing is we have people who we love to share that with. Like I love YOU!
Love this piece and love you. I resonate so deeply with this. We are all hiding from discomfort and there is a better way. Sometimes we just need someone to remind us. Thank you for being that for me.
I hope you read more of Pema Chodron, specifically "When Things Fall Apart", but also "The Wisdom of No Escape (the Path of Loving Kindness)" is wonderful too. Jeff Law has a copy of the first book if you want to borrow it from him... audiobooks are good too. There's no reason to be tied to the idea of continual "self-improvement."
"there's nothing wrong here. I haven't done anything wrong." She says instead acknowledge anything obstructing it. "Let's know our rage. Let's know our fear. Let's know our resentment," she says. "And by knowing it, listening to what you say about yourself and letting some of that negative self-talk go, then the fundamental thing is there."
Oh how I needed this!! It is spectacularly well written. The clarity pierces through the morass of things falling apart, even good things coming to be, but not yet. You are a marvel!!!
Thank you Peter! As Pema puts it -- things are always falling apart and coming back together. I'm always trying to figure out how to "feel" or if I'm feeling enough or the right way. Breathing helps lol.
Preach sister! I am horrible at uncomfortable - I try to fix it all, make a sad joke about it, or just hide in my hole...but this is so true. Hard things happen, and when we are uncomfortable and challenged, that is when we grow and learn. Best thing is we have people who we love to share that with. Like I love YOU!
Remember when I thought I'd broke your baby and I ran down the stairs and out the door? Yeah... that was uncomfortable... heh heh heh heh -- LOVE YOU
Love this piece and love you. I resonate so deeply with this. We are all hiding from discomfort and there is a better way. Sometimes we just need someone to remind us. Thank you for being that for me.
I love you babe... thank you for always listening into me.
I read this. I am doing my best to understand it & live in the moment with it.
I hope you read more of Pema Chodron, specifically "When Things Fall Apart", but also "The Wisdom of No Escape (the Path of Loving Kindness)" is wonderful too. Jeff Law has a copy of the first book if you want to borrow it from him... audiobooks are good too. There's no reason to be tied to the idea of continual "self-improvement."
"there's nothing wrong here. I haven't done anything wrong." She says instead acknowledge anything obstructing it. "Let's know our rage. Let's know our fear. Let's know our resentment," she says. "And by knowing it, listening to what you say about yourself and letting some of that negative self-talk go, then the fundamental thing is there."
ah, SO GOOD
Oh, thank you! It took forever to write this, plus like days of thinking about it.
Oh how I needed this!! It is spectacularly well written. The clarity pierces through the morass of things falling apart, even good things coming to be, but not yet. You are a marvel!!!
Thank you Peter! As Pema puts it -- things are always falling apart and coming back together. I'm always trying to figure out how to "feel" or if I'm feeling enough or the right way. Breathing helps lol.
Thank you for writing and sharing g this. I'm going to share it with my moms of kids with disability group. Love you💗
Hi Alma! we are all in this together, even if it doesn't feel like these days! Hugs to you and to all your wonderful mamas out in NJ!
Oh goodness. "This is our time" knocked the wind out of me. "Breathing into the space of this moment" gave it back again.
Seems like we could pretend it was all someone else's fault -- but whose?