Friends! It's been a week! I'm fresh off my very first TEDx Talk! Last Saturday, I went to Pocatello, Idaho to deliver a talk called The Power of Self-Permission. It went GREAT... except for the part where I completely went blank on stage and had no idea what to say or do next. Luckily, like most moments of COMPLETE TERROR, it only lasted a few seconds and I was off and running again.
The good news is that those moments when we lose it, when we completely forget our way, panic, falter, fall down, become EXPOSED, we remember our own humanity, and instantly we step into our full-blown POWER.
In the moments when we lose control, we gain faith in ourselves and in our ability to find our way through. And we always, in these moments, if we dare to stick them out, find our way forward.
It's through the struggle and the triumph that we become MORE of who we are. We discover ourselves when our planning and masking and facades and expectations fail us. We discover ourselves when we overcome. Be willing to stay in the moment.
The election also just happened and it's time to take care of ourselves and one another. Feel your feelings, make room for the emotions that are roiling through you, good or bad, and remember that you are the container for all of your thought and all of your feelings. You don't have to let any single one of them take over.
Be mindful of our very human tendencies to draw stark and dead-end conclusions in heightened times. You are big enough to weather any storm, sweetheart.
There will be a way through that didn't exist for you on election Tuesday, but by staying present to what IS, not what you fear, but what really IS, the creative solutions to move forward will appear. Trust in the peace and power inside you and surrender to your purpose, and let that be your guide.
You got this.