By Charlene M Brown
Do you ever feel like throwing in the towel? Just Giving up? Hopping on a train or plane and not looking back. Leaving everything behind you and starting over!
I definitely do!
From time to time, I just want to get away from everything I know and try something new!
But guess what!?
I’ve done it! More than once!
And guess what else?
It doesn’t make anything go away. Everything you upped and ran from is right there waiting for you, wherever you go!
A disappointing finding out, but necessary all the same.
“You can’t run from yourself, there’s nowhere to hide” (believe me, I’ve tried!, thank you Ms. Whitney!)
So what can you do?
Hmmmmmm . . . . . . .
Let me suggest . . . . .Facing yourself!
(That’s another one of those, “easy to say, but hard to do” things)
That’s right, turn back around from walking out the door and look in the mirror one more time. That’s it, easy does it. There you go. Yup, keep going, keep turning. That’s a girl! You got it Mama. Yes!
Now!
There You Are!
Okay, so facing yourself is not quite that easy, but that is definitely a good start! And what is also not easy, is dealing with yourself.
Yes, dealing with yourself.
Taking your wonderful, wounded, hurt, guilt-ridden, beautiful self and loving her. Cradling her in your own arms and telling her it’s all going to be okay. Kissing her on the forehead and making all the boo-boos feel better just by a loving touch.
In order to BE You, you have to FIND You. You have to deal with all the “stuff” (I could use another word that also has an “s” and a “t”) that makes you the incredible woman you are. You have to deal with all of the parts you already like, but you also have to deal with the parts you don’t like that much (or at all).
I have a poem that says “Even among those who help make me whole, I am broken.” And when I wrote it, I was broken, very broken. But I had been ignoring my brokenness for so many years, when it finally came out, it roared at me, loud and forcefully!
And I had run out of options. There was nowhere left for me to go. I had to deal with all the skeletons in my closet.
And while it was by no one’s definition “easy”, it was absolutely what needed to be done and absolutely what I needed to do.
And Guess What? I came out on the other side a much more complete person, who not only liked herself, but LOVED who she was! This amazed even me, formally the Queen of the Skeptics.
Part of Daring to BE You is Daring to find out WHO You Are! When I say I love my life, I am not just saying it, I really mean it. I really love who I am, right here and right now. My journey was rough sometimes, very rough sometimes, but I got through it. I did it! Some miraculous way, I made it through!
You will too, you just have to know that.
So go ahead, ladies, give yourself a pat on the back. “You can do it too Punch-e-nella, Punch-e-nella, you can do it too Punch-e-nella- in the shoe.” Now What do you choose, Punch-e-nella?
I Dare You to choose YOU.
Do You Love Your Life Now!? I Really DO!!
Related posts:
- Scaring the Skeletons Away!
- Glory Days: Living in the Present and Taking Responsibility!
- Facing Yourself!
- Drawing The Spotlight: Every Little Step You Take!
- Judging By Your Relatives: Don’t Make That Mistake!
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