Furrow
There's something that we lose somewhere along the way. And we lose it so easily that we tend to forget to get it back because it slips away without us even realising it’s gone. It’s an energy that has been pounded out of our spirit through years of unpaid overtime, through silent tears in office toilet cubicles after cutting remarks from peers, and through the decline of civility when queuing for a bus or for bread that now comes with the threat of being unconsidered by those around us who don’t care to recognise that we even exist, let alone that we have feelings. What we find so easy to lose is the right and the desire to curiously learn. Just because we want to. And to intuitively self-trust that curiosity. And to LOVE that about ourselves.
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Reveal
If two minutes of reflection time can gift you back hours of revitalisation, energy, perspective, motivation, productivity, focus, clarity, hope and… truth, guess which one from that list is the one you might be avoiding?
To reflect asks us to commit to being honest with ourselves about what ISN’T working, and, in a busy day and a pressured life - who has time to reveal and deal with what isn’t working?
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Checkpoint
When we compare our body, or status, or our lifestyle to others who appear to have what we don’t, deep down, we're checking in with ourselves and asking "Am I good enough, for ME?" but sadly, the tone that it usually comes with is one of cynicism, shame, and when darkness is overlayed - envy. So the question then gets asked in the negative: "Why am I NOT good enough for me?”, then eventually when the darkness sets in, it unconsciously turns into “Who do THEY think they are?”
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Appropriate
I think that using words accurately makes a woman more attractive. The derivation of the word “appropriate” comes from the Latin “appropriare”, meaning “to make one’s own” and “to make something fit”. I am independently complete as a result of belonging firstly to myself and fitting within my own values and standards.
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Permissions
The opposing reasons as to why you don’t do more of what you love – the “I’m not enough” swiftly followed by the “I couldn’t possibly” - is the classic dance of submission and denial that plays out between guilt and shame.
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Exhale
When we hold our breath for safety, we give power to everything that also stops us from living when we do it for too long or too frequently and leave the exhale behind as an afterthought. When we hold our breath we encourage fear, anticipation, and all the uncertainty that comes with it and gets stuck there, quietly waiting for change.
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