Lindsay Wills offers individual, couples and group counseling options along with writing, consultation and speaking services. Specialties include single mothers, teenagers, divorce, grief, loss, trauma, relationships and life transitions. Live True's theme is "Summoning strength and beauty. Igniting courage and compassion."
Because sometimes, when life gets tough, you just need to trudge on through the mud and go jump in the lake — breathe out the negativity and breathe in the joy.
When we name our feelings, bring our focus back to positivity and gratitude and set our eyes on the prize of where we are going and what we stand for, we can breathe a little easier. We find life is in our midst...and that there is more discovery just waiting to happen. Let’s pull out our inner trucks and trudge ahead!
My dear friend sent this quote to me and it just makes me cry. It also sends warmth to every part of my heart. This should be our goal, first for ourselves, then for our children and thirdly for the world.
Radiate that light mamas. Radiate that love. Life is too short to hide our shine. And those little lives are mirroring what they see and hear. Let’s choose this. Let’s do this!
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Owning Our Power
We don’t have to give others so much power and ourselves so little. We don’t have to give others so much credit and ourselves so little. In recovery from codependency, we learn there’s a big difference between humility and discounting ourselves.
When others act irresponsibly and attempt to blame their problems on us, we no longer feel guilty. We let them face their own consequences.
When others talk nonsense, we don’t question our own thinking.
When others try to manipulate or exploit us, we know it’s okay to feel anger and distrust and to say no to the plan.
When others tell us that we want something that we really don’t want, or someone tells us that we don’t want something that we really do want, we trust ourselves. When others tell us things we don’t believe, we know it’s okay to trust our instincts.
We can even change our mind later.
We don’t have to give up our personal power to anyone: strangers, friends, spouses, children, authority figures, or those over whom we’re in authority. People may have things to teach us. They may have more information than we have, and may appear more confident or forceful than we feel. But we are equals. Our magic is not in them. Our magic, our light, is in us. And it is as bright a light as theirs.
We are not second-class citizens. By owning our power, we don’t have to become aggressive or controlling. We don’t have to discount others. But we don’t discount ourselves either.
Today, I will own my power with people. I will let myself know what I know, feel what I feel, believe what I believe, and see what I see. I will be open to changing and learning from others and experience, but I will trust and validate myself too. I will stand in my own truth.
Quoted from the app Language of Letting Go, by Melody Beattie (one of my favorite personal and counseling resources!)
