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July 9, 2014 · Filed under abandonment, challenge, champion, change, courage, dating, empowerment, fear, friends, happiness, help, helping, inspiration, interactivity, love, motivation
Finding ‘myself’ has been my biggest wonder of self-discovery. Perhaps it is because I am the youngest child and was abandoned at the age of three. Some astrologers’ say that it is because of the month and year I was born.
I tend to think it has more to do with being raised in an orphanage where control and conformity was the name of the game. I believe it’s, in part, a fact of growing up in the God-fearing ‘South’…in Louisiana…where it was ingrained in my head always to be polite, never to express anger or a conflicting opinion. There, it was driven home to me, that as a ‘lady,’ I was to let the man make all the decisions and that it was my job just to support him. Whatever, the reason, I find that it has taken over 40 years to discover just who ‘I’ am!
Truly it has been and still is, my hardest lesson in life to learn to be true to myself. I have spent years upon years in the survival mode of bending to the will of others and blending into the lives of the men in my life.
Yet what I have discovered is that I am happiest when I am just ‘me.’ I am happy when I know that the life I am living is filled with animals, nature, peace and harmony. I am happy when I can pursue my career and leisure goals without reprisal or conflict with my partner. And I am happiest when I know I am being strong and true to ‘who’ I am.
This is not to say that I do not have room for compromise with my partner. I am very good at this because I enjoy ‘giving.’ I love making my loved ones happy.
And yet my discovery that it is best to be true to myself has been empowering. I find that I am finally able to make much better choices about a prospective partner and friendships. I enjoy knowing that I now have boundaries and limits to what I will, and will not do.
Of course, there are times when I truly enjoy playing the role of the little lady of the house. Yet I also revel in the excitement of being willing to risk failure to achieve my career goal. Ultimately, I find it exhilarating to live life to the fullest by just being ‘me.’
February 19, 2014 · Filed under abandonment, alone, breathing, challenge, champion, change, courage, dating, empowerment, fear, focus, grateful, grief, happiness, heart, help, helping, holding hands, inspiration, internal power, keynote speaker, life, love, meditation, motivation, not alone, obstacle, obstacles, olympic, overcome, overcoming obstacles, pain, peace of mind, perseverance, physical pain, poem, positive, positive mind, positivity, power, power of mind, power of the mind, relationship, relationships, self confidence, self esteem, self help, self improvement, speaker, stress, stressful, success, twitter, universe
As I walk along the mountain path a wind begins to blow
Past me, over me, around me, through me
I say ‘hello.’ For I know this wind. He is my friend. He is the ‘Wind of Change.’
I feel blessed with His friendship, and His gift of embracing me during this time
And I know that He is helping me
To blow the darkness away from my spirit…this sadness, this pain
He brings instead joy, love and happiness to a broken soul
He restores my health and passion
With promises of the future
And hope in the present
I love my friend, the ‘Wind of Change.’
Without Him nothing lives
With Him everything blossoms
I am grateful
cc: danahee February 2014
February 19, 2014 · Filed under abandonment, alone, breathing, challenge, champion, change, courage, dating, death, empowerment, fear, focus, grief, happiness, heart, help, holding hands, identity crises, inspiration, internal power, keynote speaker, life, lost job, love, meditation, motivation, not alone, obstacle, obstacles, olympic, overcome, overcoming obstacles, pain, peace of mind, perseverance, physical pain, positive, positive mind, power, power of mind, power of the mind, productivity, prosperity, relationship, relationships, results, risk, self anger, self confidence, self esteem, self help, self improvement, socializing, speaker, stress, stressful, success, visualization
There comes a point in everyone’s life that we need to cross a bridge. For me, that time is now.
The past is over and done. The future is yet to be seen. All I have is right now…and I, for one want to make the most of each and every moment.
Therefore, I will close this heavy book I have been holding in my hand, and I will begin writing a new one with every step I take. I will put one foot in front of the other leaving the old and familiar, as I cross that bridge into the future.
I do not know what is on the other side of this bridge. Yet whatever it is, I will embrace it with all of my heart and soul.
Yes. I do not know where I am going. Yet I do know I will get there. With God’s grace, it will be a wonderful place.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
cc: danahee February 19 2014
February 5, 2014 · Filed under abandonment, alone, anger, breathing, challenge, champion, change, dating, empowerment, energize, grateful, happiness, heart, holding hands, identity crises, inspiration, interactivity, love, motivation, not alone, obstacle, pain, peace of mind, perseverance, relationship, relationships, results, self anger, self esteem, self help, self improvement, speaker, stress, stressful, success, Uncategorized
Standing outside just now, I watch my beautiful turkeys as they eat the corn and ‘coo’ among themselves
The silence of the falling snow drowns out the cries of my soul. It’s sleek white blanket slowly covers the tears in my heart
Crystal cold air quiets my mind…if only for a moment or two
What peace it must be, to never feel the beauty of the snow. Yet so sad this emptiness within
‘Good-by’ echoes in the frozen stillness of this winter wonderland
As I turn away, I pray I pray that peace will prevail
Truly? Is it better to go to sleep on an empty stomach?
Perhaps so. Perhaps not.
cc: dhee 02/2014
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