I posted this on my other blog
here, but I wanted to
make sure all my other blog-readers saw this too!
Such wisdom.My friend Jennifer Louden shared this today:
I believe you have a creative essence and your job in life is to listen to what the creative essence is and express it. Not just at work or to make money or in traditionally creative ways but with your whole life.
I believe your job is to keep pausing and listening to what is true for you and then giving yourself permission to own, and when relevant, share that truth.
And you know what I find?
That this is one of the most difficult things to do.
It's what you are born to be and yet, sometimes, it seems like everything conspires to make it so damn difficult.
Oh well. What's a gal to do?
Some days, you've just got be a warrior for your self.
Some days, you've got to choose to wrestle with the inner voices and fears that say, "You can't feel that! You can't acknowledge that feeling, idea, impulse."
You've can choose to resist the outer voices who want you to do what they want -- not because they don't love you, but because they have their own fears running them or simply their own preferences and needs.
You can decide to turn away from what deadens you -- shadow comforts, time monsters, endless shoulds, the constant speeding-up and complexifying of life -- and towards what strengthens you, what lights you up.
Self-care helps makes all of this easier to do. When you are exhausted or depleted, it's pretty hard to have to courage to resist, to choose, to listen.
I get stuck in the washing machine of faulty reasoning which consists of an endless cycle of "I can't take time for self-care because there is so much to do."
Just for today, let's put that lie to rest. (pun intended).
(It's what I am personally trying to do -- by joining Yoga classes and discovering more about Young Living Essential Oils!)
Let's remember, together, that pushing and beating ourselves up only gives us bruises and that being true to our creative essence requires courage and energy.
That's just the way it is. Time to be courageous.
Why resist the truth and keep living as half yourself?
I'll be asking myself that this week. I hope you will, too.
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