One of my little quirks is that I do not like to do what every one else is doing. I like to be different, unique, to march to my own drum…and then some. If everyone is going to WordPress with their blog – I stay on Blogger or move to Squarespace. If everyone is pushing full speed ahead, 24/7, 365 days a year…I find ways to go upstream and that might be by just being.
I could probably come up with better analogies and “likes” here…but I need to get on the road for the evening…and I wanted to let you know that I am going to practice what I preach. Well it is really what the Feminine Voice is sharing with us through teachers like Sara Avant Stover, Sabrina Chaw, Lisa Schrader (please google them…I don’t have time to link them).
These women are encouraging women (and men) to tune out, go against…or as I like to use the term “divorce” the voices of our modern day society that tell us to go full force in our masculine energy all the time, never breaking to slow down, tune in and listen deeply to that still small voice that cannot be heard over the roar of our break-neck pace.
One of my many many lessons this last 2 years is that I am not in my 20s anymore (and even if I was, I would encourage myself to also do this for my own health through my 20s!)…and I have many balls I am trying to juggle as a woman and single mother rebirthing herself into the professional world after 8 years out (and only 5 years in) ~ and with all that my body is telling me constantly that She will no longer allow me to push her past the point of healthy ways. If I do, I get sick almost immediately.
When this happened just a few weeks ago, I promised myself to take at least 1/2 a day off to detox weekly! And to take time off around my Moon start so that I can really pull in, self care and self nourish.
Have I don’t this? Well, now that I am not sick and feeling good…the temptation is so easy to fall prey to. “Just this one time I’ll push through, and I’ll do it next month,” I hear myself saying. “You have soooo much to get done, you cannot afford time off now.”
Well, I decided that fighting these voices really isn’t helping – as is the case most times. It just makes the voices go off harder, louder and with more zest.
Instead of fighting them, I’m asking them what they really want. I am asking them if we can “divorce” the old relationship we have shared together…”divorce” the idea that these are even my own voices…and if we can work together to give myself time to rest and rejuvenate so that I can come back even stronger, more focused and healthy after my rest.
The good news: They, the voices, have said yes!
So, with the brilliance of modern technology I am writing this to you the day before I sign off – and setting it to post tomorrow for me. In the meantime, I am going to go play with my coach to look for new insights my own Story and Body are bringing to me. I’m leaving the computer at home, and meeting with Kjerstin Gruys from Mirror, Mirror off the Wall (so excited!). I’m taking time to detox and get an acupuncture appointment….
….all in honor of my body and all She has and is doing for me.
Yes…even in writing this I have felt myself sink in, exhale and relax into my Red Tent.
Will you be joining me?
(If you reply yes – I’ll get back to you after I my Red Tent time!)
