Authenticity. Lovingkindness. Truth. Those are my values. So here goes.
Ever have writer’s block? I have it. My brain feels empty—and yet I still love all of you. I desperately want to miraculously write something that is supportive, encouraging, helpful, and perhaps life changing. But I’m knocking on the door of my writer’s room and no one is answering!
This is my passion. Did inspiration take a vacation? Is is gone forever?
Panic sets in. “Oh my gosh, I can’t write!” Those feelings of anxiety, frustration and what the heck-ness creeps in. “But I’m committed to a weekly blog. Yea, Lee, well you can give what you don’t have!”
I guess that’s life. How about you? Have you ever felt stuck, immobilized or unable to do what you want or need to do in your life?
Here’s my life lessons this week:
- This is not life or death. Really it isn’t. Perspective is lovely. No one is holding her/his breath for my next blog post to be published.
- It’s not about me. It’s about what flows through me. And…it’s not flowing right now. That’s what’s so.
- The present is perfect. I relaxed into not being able to write, took the pressure off myself and I can appreciate me—again.
- Timing is everything. Now is not the time to plant a seed.
- Experiencing a block is just that and nothing more.
- Worth does not come from doing. It comes from being.
Success Challenge:
- What blocks do you have in your life right now?
- What lessons are they teaching you?
- What’s one thing that you can do to support and accept yourself now?
- Journal about what you are grateful for today.
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Celebrating Being,
Coach Lee
Who would we be if creativity came to us all the time? I think some of those people are on medication. We have to have the downbeats, the bonks, the silences in our lives so that we create beautiful music with our daily actions. Yeah Lee
Dear Lee ~ I welcome blocks. That’s when I hear the knock on my passion door. When I answer I’m invited to go kayaking!!! The “block” is my inner, creative being scrambling to come out and play. Time to put my “Welcome” mat outside my passion door again! I know you kayak too ~ how long has it been?
I think this is a perfect post – honest, authentic – and speaks to what all women experience at times. I don’t mean the writer’s block, necessarily, but the feeling of overwhelm and being stuck… I think it’s great that you’ve shown us how to give ourselves permission to just sit with those feelings without judgment and trust that inspiration will return when the time is right! <3