Life is amazing, there is not a day that goes by where I don't stop and look around myself wondering "how in the heck did I end up here."
Sometimes this remark is a positive one, where I am feeling blessed, lucky and overall in a great place. However there are those other times, the times when I
am feeling alone, lost, afraid. Since September, my world was turned upside down. I truly stepped away from the person that I have known for so long (myself)
and ventured out into the wild unknown. I stepped away from a marriage that I wasn't happy in, I stepped away from inhibitions and experienced life through
new eyes. I had decided that I wasn't truly finding what I had been looking for so...why not go and find it. Overall, the experience one that I am lovingly
calling my "sabbatical" turned out to be the best choice I had ever made. What I had been "looking for" was right under my nose the whole
time. This "self" that I had stepped away from, this "marriage" that I removed myself from was what I was looking for, it just needed some
minor adjustments. I am happy to say that after that whole ordeal of knowing that something is lost, searching and then finding it, I feel great relief. I
learned that when you aren't happy with a situation in life, sometimes all it takes is stepping out of the scenario, pausing...observing and then
learning....From this, my marriage is feeling golden, and I am feeling loved, needed and fulfilled.
I remember Erich saying that our lives, this world, is a lot like the "Magic Kingdom." It comes with its ups and downs, highs and lows. Overall though, if we take the time to just relax, pause (this is a big one) and observe, life seems pretty freaking good.
So the question I ask myself is really? Did that just happen? Did I really leave my husband of 9 years, live life solo, learn a whole heck of a lot about myself in a period of months, enough to know that I didn't want to live the rest of my life without my husband....yes, I guess I did. And, the beauty of it all is that all the way through this little adventure, I was in the Magic Kingdom.....Thanks Erich!
I know this is turning into a bit of a long winded post but I do have to mention an excellent book that I have been reading. It is called "The five love languages." It basically discusses the idea that we all have a love "language" we speak and or receive, the author breaks it down into 5 languages, I quickly discovered that mine was "words of affirmation" I feel most loved when I am being told things such as "you are a good mother," "you mean so much to me." There are four more languages aside from this including: Acts of service, quality time, giving gifts (not necessarily expensive ones) and physical touch. This book really made me examine not only myself, my husband but also my children, family and friends. It is a lot like yoga, so simple yet so profound and amazing!
I am so glad to be back on the board! I hope you all have a beautiful Christmas!
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I remember Erich saying that our lives, this world, is a lot like the "Magic Kingdom." It comes with its ups and downs, highs and lows. Overall though, if we take the time to just relax, pause (this is a big one) and observe, life seems pretty freaking good.
So the question I ask myself is really? Did that just happen? Did I really leave my husband of 9 years, live life solo, learn a whole heck of a lot about myself in a period of months, enough to know that I didn't want to live the rest of my life without my husband....yes, I guess I did. And, the beauty of it all is that all the way through this little adventure, I was in the Magic Kingdom.....Thanks Erich!
I know this is turning into a bit of a long winded post but I do have to mention an excellent book that I have been reading. It is called "The five love languages." It basically discusses the idea that we all have a love "language" we speak and or receive, the author breaks it down into 5 languages, I quickly discovered that mine was "words of affirmation" I feel most loved when I am being told things such as "you are a good mother," "you mean so much to me." There are four more languages aside from this including: Acts of service, quality time, giving gifts (not necessarily expensive ones) and physical touch. This book really made me examine not only myself, my husband but also my children, family and friends. It is a lot like yoga, so simple yet so profound and amazing!
I am so glad to be back on the board! I hope you all have a beautiful Christmas!
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