How are you?
If you are a Southern Hemisphere reader (shout out to my Aussies and Kiwi’s!) I hope you are still on your holibobs, and enjoying the sunshine and if you are currently Northern Hemisphere like me where the world return to work on the 5th January and it feels like the 83rd of January right now… keep going!
Here’s a fact that makes me feel better: by the end of MARCH the sun won’t be setting til 7.30pm, not long to hang in there! The sun has such a big impact on my mood: I always joke that I am caffeine and solar powered Do you relate?!
I hope powerful few words for you today if you (or someone you know, feel free to forward this on) is having a rough time:
One of the hardest lessons in life is accepting the fact that some situations will never go back to how they were.
The longer we wrestle with trying and wishing we could just “go back” the unhappier we will be. We can get totally stuck in a vicious cycle of non-acceptance.
Acceptance of something treasured ending or breaking or changing is one of the hardest leaps to make in mind and heart.
However peace, hope and new beginnings are on the other side of that acceptance.
Sometimes we can ONLY go forwards.
We might not want to accept that what is, IS what is
But fighting it is what keeps us trapped in heartbreak
We keep reinjuring our own hearts by wishing it to be another way
The truth is, when things break or change irrevocably – even if we don’t like it, in fact, especially when we don’t like it, acceptance is the way forwards.
Sometimes we simply have to accept that things will never go back to the way they used to be.
Even though that is the hardest thing to accept, there is relief in it. And relief is always taking us in the right direction.
If you are immersed in a tough but unchangeable situation right now, dear reader, I promise you acceptance is the way out
Sending you much love today I wrote this for you, with my brain and my heart and over a decade and a half of coaching wisdom, not AI: just as good life coaching should be. It’s becoming an AI jungle out there, so be careful what you are reading, and who (if anyone) is actually writing it!
