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You’ve been flying through the storm too long,

Wings are heavy, you can barely hold on.

Come on down, come on in,

Let the water take you in.

You’re safe now. 

You’ve found sanctuary.

Take it easy, take your time,

There’s no mountain you have to climb.

Let the gentle current flow,

Healing happens soft and slow.

You’re mending. 

You’re resting.

Rest your heart along the shore,

You don’t have to fight no more.

Every scar becomes a victory song,

You’ve been brave, you’ve been strong.

You’re rebuilding.

You’re healing. 

When you’re ready, when it’s time,

You’ll remember how to rise.

Spread those wings and catch the light,

You were always meant to fly.

You’re rising. 

You’re taking flight.

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The message “take it easy” is a good one.

Especially when you’re healing.

Case and point, in hospital,

every move has a nurse reminding the patients of patience.  

You can not expect to move like you did before 

>>> after the world hands you your ass.

I have had this exchange with the world… (more times than I like to admit)… 

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We have to believe that healing is possible.

If we’re saying “I can’t believe it happened,” or “I will never get over it,”

Kind of assures we stay in denial and unhealed.

Self fulfilling prophecy and all that…

It did happen.

It was bad/horrible/damaging.

It did happen, and there is much pain about it happening.

AND

You can recover.  You can mourn the loss.

You can and will move on and find the Good in life again.

Staying in denial, wounded, and embittered/indarkened is a choice.

Because 

We have Choice.

We have the ability to re-script what we do in a crisis, during and after. 

Training. Preparedness. Readiness. 

Example: Batten Down The Hatches.. if you know the storm is coming. 

Be the first one out clearing the roads when the storm is done.

We know what it looks like in Natural disasters…

Do we know what it looks like for relationships?

Early storm warnings?  Un-addressed issues? Unmet needs?

We have the ability to re-script what we do in a confrontation, during and after. 

Training. Preparedness. Readiness. 

Confront >>> to turn and face.  

Maybe it is facing their ugly and not flinching.

And the ugly does come with wailing&gnashing etc.

Maybe it’s face your ugly,

(Bullies try to show you via all the accusations,

grudges, jealousies, fantasies, sneers, smears… )

Pre-paredness looks like Grayrock and J.A.D.E.

Weird when nothing lands, huh? 

It’s called healing.

You are healing.

>>> That’s right you have accepted everything about yourself.

Every mistake, every flaw, every failure, every incident that proves 

You are human.

Welcome to Humanity.

You’ve righted your wrongs, paid your dues, and kept your receipts.

You’ve put in the hours. You know what you’re worth.

It’s when you gotta be something else to appease someone else that we start to lose our humanity, by accepting we are less than and they are more than. Or visa versa. Mechanics of Debt/Lack culture.

Growth culture is different. Merit culture is different. Self mastery culture is different.

They can not invoke shame anymore.

>sux to be my bully<

Immune. Indifferent. Unbothered.

So what?

So what ‘what they think’? So what ‘what they said’?

Smart people go see for themselves. Truth seekers go seek (it’s in the name.)

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I made sandhill cranes!! woodstorks!

I fixed my flamingo’s (you don’t get to say that every day!!)

I made an osprey, and eagles, (bald and Daggett) I made brown and white Pelicans.

I built a seabird sanctuary and learned a lot more about estuary life.

I wrote a beautiful song.

Did I mention the manatee? Or the cutest gator ever?  

I’m going to make some wall plaques to mount my largemouth bass.

And

There’s about 1000 more things I can think of that are more Fun/Satisfying/Enjoyable/Rewarding/ than worrying over a bully’s nonsense anymore.

Or feeling shame about being a basic human in a powerful storm (or a toxic relationship).

TravelerChimiru digital Audubon!!  Now… That’s a good goal!

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