You’re not broken!

Is it just ME, or do you, too, feel many women are just too hard on themselves?

A recent conversation with a well experienced Life Coach confirms this feeling. She is New York Times best-selling author, former news anchor, and frequent television guest, and has personally walked her talk.

Women are wired to be pleasers, to too often put ourselves last – and for all the wrong reasons…we do until it hurts and then we do some more.  We trust more readily.

If any of this resonates with you (be honest, now!) you owe it to yourself to share some time with Terri Amos-Britt. (You can link to Terri at www.theiwla.com)  Her honesty, her authenticity, her personal experiences will open your mind and your heart to your own realities, your own possibilities. Better yet, how to move forward more positively for yourself – even learning how and why women need to give greater priority to ourselves and to love ourselves more so we can sincerely continue to love others more completely. AHHHHH!

I am bearing witness to women around me entering new phases of life.  OK, I know – we all enter a new phase of life every day – if we are open to it!  As a woman not blessed to have my own children, I am seeing what seems an abyss other women see themselves sinking into.

There is a sense of brokenness; I promise you, you are not broken.  Change is inevitable.  It’s a sign of natural progression.

Children are raised so as to give them wings so they can soar on their own; roots, so that they have a solid foundation from which they continue to grow and strengthen.  Getting to that point in a woman’s life is a magnificent sign of just one of her “jobs” well done.  Now, is a chance for her to move forward for herself and to continue to blossom, not to wither on the vine or stay silently perched in an empty nest.  It is a time of triumph; not tribulation.

I read a quote recently and I want to share it with you:

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

                                                                                      ~Leonard Cohen 

What a wonderful visual that line creates; it says it all.

 

Give yourself permission to let your own light shine, for in doing so you continue to mother the world.  You are the best example of what is yet to come for those you have given birth to, those you have nurtured, those you have loved.

So, IS it just me, or do you, too, see that purposefulness, beauty and growth never need fade – as long as you let the light – your light – in.

SHINE!