Sometimes trying harder is not the answer, Dear One.

Sometimes taking a break is.

Trust yourself enough to know if this is one of those times.

How do you know for sure?

Ask your heart.  It will tell you.

This is your life Dear One.

• Love it
• Hate it
• Enjoy it
• Waste it
• Share it
• Hoard it
• Embrace it
• Fear it
• Celebrate it
• Worry it away

What you do with it is totally and completely up to you.

How you respond to the events in it is totally and completely up to you.

How you react to the people in it is totally and completely up to you.

Not them Dear One.

You.

Just you.

You are not doing this alone, Dear One.

We are right here with you every step of the way.

Guiding you.  Helping you.  Hearing you.  Loving you. Cheering you on.

Every minute of every day.

Don’t you forget it.

Regardless of what you may think, regardless of what you may feel, you are most definitely not doing this alone.

[NOTE TO SELF]

If your body is telling you that it needs some time off Dear One, take it.

Trust us when we tell you that you will be so much better off choosing to do so now while the choice is still yours to make.

Today, Dear One, don’t make it your priority to try and do your best for them, for their benefit.

Today, we want you to act, and speak, and choose on your own behalf; to do what is going to serve you best, to do what is going to restore and maintain your own balance.

You are not feeling lost, Dear One, because you don’t know your way.

You are feeling lost, because you are trying to get home by following a map to someone else’s house.

Why struggle, when you can trust, Dear One?

Why pretend when you can be yourself?

Why fight when you can accomplish so much more by allowing?

Why be hard on yourself, when you can choose to be loving, caring, nurturing, and supportive of yourself instead?

You can’t stop all hurts from ever reaching you Dear One, but you can stop making them worse for yourself when they do.

No one has it all figured out, Dear one.

No one.

Not even us.

So let yourself off the hook today and stop trying so hard to be the one to do it.

Just in case you needed it Dear One, here is one more reason why no matter what, under any circumstance, you should always be yourself.

Because the reality of you, of who you are, is and always will be infinitely more powerful, more likable, more effective, more creative, more beautiful, more everything, than any illusion of you ever could be.

And the truth of it is that whether they admit it or not (to you or to themselves),  the people that you are putting on the act for can tell the difference anyway.

You are the guide, Dear One, you are the teacher.

With your words, actions, attitude and choices, are are demonstrating to others the wisdom that  you have gained from the experiences of your life.

What have you learned?   What do you know to be true?

What you want to demonstrate for them today?

• Confidence, compassion, faith, resilience, forgiveness, honesty, trust, how to heal, love, laugh, connect, allow?
• Or fear, insecurity, anger, resentment, self-destruction, how to hold a grudge, how to be a victim, how to disconnect, stand still, or hold yourself apart?

Try and fail Dear One, and you will still be better off than if you had never tried at all.