What's Your Story? Do You Have One?

Does your story define you?

Do you know what I mean by that? 

For quite a few years mine did. Until I got tired of it.

My beautiful friend Sarah and I were hosting a retreat in October 2016. As I began to tell my story I suddenly realized that I was sooo tired of it - of replaying the events again. I wasn't the same person anymore and it no longer defined me. I hadn't realized until then that I had somehow let that 'definition' happen. 

At that moment I realized I had outgrown the story; that I had become more than 'it.' Not better, not worse, but different. It certainly didn't happen overnight, but it did happen.

We change. We heal. We grow. But when we're in the midst of a crisis we don't recognize - or acknowledge - that there will come a day when we're past it.

We want it to happen sooner rather than later. For me it took 4 years to go from the depths of how I had been feeling to that day at our retreat. I'm still a work in progress. Aren't we all? 😊

At the end of July 2022 it will be 10 years since I finally closed the doors on that business dream. It feels like a lifetime ago.

It had brought me to my knees to the point where I could barely set foot in the door. My husband and son took care of moving everything out while I was away. They had planned it that way as they knew being part of the move would break me even more. 

But - that is what set me on this path. It wouldn't have happened otherwise and I know in my heart that this is where I'm meant to be. What I'm supposed to be doing. 

We don't know what lies ahead but at some point you have to let the story go and take the next step. Did I know then what I would be doing now? Not a chance!

So take the step my friend! Trust. Trust that you'll be okay. Even if you don't have a clue what the step after that will be. Trust that something miraculous could happen. That you'll be happy.

If you had told me two months before I closed those doors that this is where I'd be living and what I'd be doing I would have never believed you. 

Is there a story that you need to release? To move past? To let go of? It's possible to rise again.

I'll see you on the path.

Namaste,Glenda