Life

It has been a funny few weeks.

Although I have read and been told that at times I am going to need to change the way I run my days I have just ploughed ahead. Daft? Yes. Totally daft. Well these last few weeks the body and the mind didn’t just politely tell me to stop. They both roared at me.

So I had to do something not just rely on medicine so that I felt I was doing something. I went back to the TWO STEP. Something I learnt a long time ago but which I had conventiently forgotten.

I open the back door take two steps, close my eyes and ask what can two things can I feel. Then I ask myself what two things can I hear. finally I ask myelf on opening my eyes what two things can I see. I am finding this small riual is grounding me. There have been a few days when I have needed to follow this ritual a few times during the day and that has been good.

One of the days though when I wa feeling overwhelmed I came across this quote

Healing doesn’t always look powerful. Sometimes it looks like resting, choosing silence or letting one small breath soften the whole day.”

I was definitley stopped in my tracks. The idea of softening the day really stuck with me . It is ok to allow softness into my life. It is ok to be tired. It is ok to stop

I sometimes think those women who have gone before me send me hints and I am so glad that I allowed myself to hear them becuae someone was definitley looking out for me when that quote appeared.

Wishing a softening week.