Welcome ... Are you ready to Embrace Your Life?
Since we are all born with an expiration date, there is no better time to get started than right now.
We, as women, are amazing, lovely, and inspiring creatures. Whether we choose to believe it or not, we have incredible powers. We are intuitive by nature, giving beyond measure, and our capacity to love and nurture has no equal. According to our kids (validated by the previous statements), we have eyes in the backs of our heads, super-human hearing, and we are the ultimate lie-detector machines. When we give ourselves permission, the depth and breadth of our ability to feel, both good and bad, is scary. We endure, we tolerate, we submit, we forgive (though seldom forget), and above all else, we survive.
But do we live?
In that self-inventory we take every so often (really, it's not just you), most of us find our lives lacking ... not a complete loss by any means, but lacking nonetheless. There is that little something that we can't quite put our finger on that holds us back from a life we can truly embrace. We may lack healthy, meaningful relationships, the career we left behind, or a life purpose that is outside our spouse and our children. Maybe we don't nourish our bodies with enough exercise or proper nutrition. We worry too much, laugh too little, and truly forget how to play. And because we are so exceptionally good at doing what is expected of us, pleasing others, and taking care of everyone else first, most of us spend our lives living a life that was not designed by us.
Why are we last?
Study after study and report after report emphasize how important it is to put ourselves first, listing all of the benefits in clear and concise language that we all understand. And yet, overall, we fail miserably at the task. There was a great analogy that I heard once that really sunk in ... There is a reason why the airlines ask us to put our oxygen masks on first before helping our children or anyone else who needs help.
When we are well-nourished in all aspects of our being - mind, body, and spirit - it is then that we can have the greatest impact on others. When we choose to embrace our life, we are ultimately choosing to live unselfishly, with greater peace and contentment. By choosing us, we are choosing everyone else in our lives be default, but from a much healthier perspective. The love we offer others must flow from self love, and loving ourselves means we put our oxygen mask on first.
