It is a huge understatement to say that things have been a wee tense and anxious. As you read this, you are perhaps on you way to vote or wondering what the outcome will be and when we’ll know, as much as you hope it “goes the right way” (if you’re in the states). I suppose you may be wondering if you’re outside the states as well.
I’ve had personal tension and anxiety too, as I’ve written about. I’m in the midst of a wee “it’s probably nothing, but it still is worrisome” cancer scare. I am def wondering what the outcome will be and def hoping it will “go the right way.”
I’m also hard at work making my keynote hopefully stronger – to reach more people and have more impact. As I was re-rehearsing, I came to the nearly last line, “let yourself be and find joy.”
That resonated deep and wide.
Even as things are slightly trepidatious in my life, I also am highly aware of all the joy. I, in fact, am noticing more and more of the healing and rewiring in my brain. I am no longer caught in old thought patterns and the introjects that were carved into me by my cult. I am freer and wholer and happier than I’ve ever been. Or ever expected I’d be. Or ever could even imagine.
I am, more and more, letting myself be and find joy.
I’m also working to hold the same openness to change and possibility and hope in our nation and world. There is so much that is so so broken. So much suffering. So much hate. So much fear. So much extremism, which I know too well.
I am holding to the belief that love will prevail. That things will right. That I will contribute what and how I can (hence my keynote, amongst other things), and that joy will find us and we will find it. That we will find the ways to our best selves and to be our best selves.
Love yourself. Take care of yourself. Take care of our world.
Let yourself be and find joy.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, and please share this post with others if it resonates with you!
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