This is my clothes line, or why we bought our house. My therapy couch. My best friend. My boys jungle gym when I’m not looking. It’s green. It’s zen. I love it! This is one of the places I go to purge and rebuild. This is where I go to find me.
I must go there often, cause I break daily. I’m such a fragile thing. The reason I can’t handle diets, budgets or other structure is because they sound like rules. I don’t like rules. From wet paint signs to running with sissors. I don’t want to be told what to do.
So, I go and sort through my dirty laundry soaking up the fresh air and birds singing, and ask myself a few questions. What really matters? What am I trying to accomplish? What am I willing to settle for?
Then I hang out. Sing. Dance. Breathe. Laugh. Snuggle kittens. Argue.
Then answer honestly. Leaving my emotions on the doorstep. I answer them logically, with no reguard to status quo.
What really matters to me is spirituality, family and friends, physical/mental body and my resources. I want relationships: deep and personal. I want health: (cough cough) to pursue those relationships. I want to be a good steward with my resources: time, money and talent. When the dust settles…I’m simply left with my authenic self. Exhaling and flushing everything that doesn’t give me balance in these areas.
Pursuing these sounds like a plan a LIFE PLAN and not rules.
As I lie in bed at night on fresh smelling sheets that are freeze dried, I shiver and ponder…Is it really worth hanging laundry out in February?
You Betcha!
Simply,
Sis
Tags: goals, laundry, life coach, relationships, simple therapy
Brrrr…. NO WAY could I hang out laundry right now… I do need a clothesline though.. one of those “we will get to it” things we have on our list here at the new house.. along with the sidewalk, front step, landscaping, chicken house, storage shed, sod/grass, fire pit …. oh my.. now I am feeling overwealmed. LOL
Yes, indeed. The best kind of therapy is free.
I find mine in my vacuum cleaner.
Good writing sis!!
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