01/07/2022
Sometimes we need more softness, sometimes we need more strength, almost always a measure of both, but constantly fluctuating in balance.
I’ve always been partial to the go hard fast strong with ultimate energy and enthusiasm… and countless a time I have exhausted myself so wholly and completely… energetically, emotionally, mentally, physically. Overstimulated and exhausted, I, for a long time, was oblivious to the subtle wonder of all that is soft. I was wrapped up in the intensity of my engagement with the world and it’s people, which, in endless ways, was incredible to experience. But there is a different far more peaceful and harmonious incredible to experience - an incredible that is found when moving with balance through life.
I spent some time nicely cocooned during the first year of the pandemic, wrapping myself with what I hold most dear and releasing or taking space from a lot of the rest. By now I have returned to more of my butterfly state, flitting between the many roles I play in my communities and through my many passions. I draw so much sweetness, so much value from sharing my passions with my people.
I am finding such value for what I have to share… giving myself many reminders that I am and what I do is “always enough”. I’ve been tending a garden with tender love, hard work, and deep care. Now witnessing and delighting in the many blooms of all that’s growing in my life.
My growing businesses have begun to demand some busy bee from me. And so the balance sways. A little less flit and a little more sit and focus and put in the hard long hours of work. But still holding space for soft, for slow, for “do whatever my rebellious spirit feels it needs to”.
Work hard play often and rest soft.
And remember, you are always enough.
📸: the glorious
