You really can let it all go

While finding our way through all that happens in our lives can be exhausting, there's a peace that comes with just letting it all go.

Trying to be 'normal', to live an ordinary life, to do the kind of work that's expected, to react in the expected way, to be conventional, all of these cost the soul of the woman. The same is true for holding on to our own expectations of other people.

Like the peony that suddenly lays down its petals and says 'I'm done', we can dust off our hands and say, 'that's it'. There is freedom in letting go and letting live. Allowing others to make their own way. Turning from the 'expected' path and heading out on our own is how we find healing and calm, away from the frantic calls on us, the demands on our time and our emotions which stop us from being able to breathe deeply and freely.

It is only when we are able to set ourselves aside from the noise and fluster that we start to hear our true nature calling to us and start the healing required to be what we are truly meant to be.

The true freedom comes from forgiving (if not forgetting) and not exhausting ourselves with the conversations in our heads (or in person) as we try to convince or untangle their reasoning. 

Now I don't mean walk out on relationships of great meaning, the ones you hold dear and know deserve the work; but you will know, trust yourself, when it's time. 

Next week we'll look at how menopause, and the grieving process we enter as we realise we are getting older, require our special attention to ourselves and great gentleness and kindness.

(Never AI written, sorry Chat, you're not included in my blogs).