A Little Bird Told Me ...

I was sent this Daily Truth from Brave Girls Club in January.

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Dear Courageous Girl,

Don’t ever think for a minute that you are weak when it feels like life is a battle. Many times, life does throw us into a battle. These are times that teach us, strengthen us, test us and show us what we are made of.

Life doesn’t give us battles to turn us into vengeful fighters, rather to show us the strength that we have that we don’t even know we have until we have to use it. Life is not out to get us, but rather there to teach us. Life is not working against us … but absolutely for us. Sometimes life hands out some really tough love … but if we take it as love … and return with love, openness and faith in the journey … miracles will happen.

It is ok to feel weary sometimes. It is ok to cry and even shout at the sky. It is ok to throw fits when we are at our wit’s end, The important thing is that we keep those fits short … make them count … and then move on … move forward … keep moving … keep learning … keep hoping … keep believing … keep smiling. Things have always worked out. Things will continue to always work out.

Be brave, dear girl.

You are so very loved.
xoxo

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This spoke mountains to my heart. It was able to break through the walls that had been built up around my heart to keep me ‘safe’. I think words are amazing. The way they can be strung together to make meaning and penetrate the darkest of places and begin to fill it with light and truth. When things were really bad for me and I couldn’t see a way out, I not only felt like I was in a battle, I knew I was in a battle and that at times I was battling to stay alive. I had really lost my way. I am so grateful for those who continued to walk along side me, stopping when I needed to stop, urging me to take a few more steps, encouraging me to fight for me and that I was worth fighting for. Its like the message I received in the Daily Truth was already spoken upon their hearts and they knew I had to get through.

And the miracle happened.

I came out of the darkness and into the light and the truth.

I have learnt so much through doing Body Restoration Course. I am so much more than just a body. I have a body that houses my soul. I am real and my body is like a story book – documenting my journey through the lows of the dark valleys, through my road of recovery, and the highlights of the journey along the way. My body has been through things, as has yours, that no one else has been through the exact same thing. I’ve learnt some things may be similar, but nothing is ever exactly the same. We are all unique, and things effect us completely differently. There is not one person that has had exactly the same string of events happen to them as it did to you.

But I beg of you, please don’t be discouraged. We are all so different and yet we are all the same. The things that you struggle with – guaranteed – someone else is struggling with the exact same thing. I think our hopes, dreams, fears, worries and anxieties are all the same – we just experience them differently.

And I do believe:

 “The important thing is that we keep those fits short … make them count … and then move on … move forward … keep moving … keep learning … keep hoping … keep believing … keep smiling. Things have always worked out. Things will continue to always work out.”

When you don’t feel like you can be strong, I want you to know that I am always around. We weren’t meant to ‘do’ life alone. We are all here to encourage, support and help each other, and I think as women, its something that links us no matter where we are in this big, wide world.

So many things about us are different, but trust in the knowledge that we are all the same. We are all beautiful souls and things will continue to always work out.

Be Courageous ~ Be Brave ~ Be You

With all my heart,

~ Live ~ Love ~ Imagine ~ Create

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