Normal begins today.
This is morning sacred to me. I light three flames: tea, fire, candle and then I read, and then I write. This is prayer for me.
It’s been a ten day journey of expression since my birthday, and I have to say, this might’ve been my best birthday in a long long long time. I might even say my best birthday ever, but I gotta give that a bit more of a think first.
I did nothing but follow my impulses for ten days.
I’m an expressive, so while I’m super introverted and require absolute solo-cannot-do-not-reach-me time, if I don’t have a healthy, daily dose of pouring OUT each day, my mental health will suffer and I can roll in.
If you’re in my inner circle you’ll know because those messages of pouring out via text, or voice, or messenger to you feel like falling to me and I will close my message with ‘thanks for catching me’, which is code for no need to respond’. I needed to be caught.
And thankfully, I’ve cultivated a circle of loved ones who know what that means.
The last ten days I’ve had the space, time and energy to catch myself. I took myself off ‘mom-duty’ for almost two weeks. You should see my house. And it changed me.
It wasn’t a retreat.
It wasn’t ‘time with the girls’
It wasn’t a bath, or a run, or a good book, or just chillin’… It was time to listen, and then permission to follow, and with absolute ZERO accountability to anyone but me, and another big old ZERO of explanation to anyone else either annnnnnnnd a big 100% permission to be misunderstood by everyone and anyone.
Like me
Don’t like me
Receive me
Don’t receive me
Understand me
or don’t
And you know what happened?
I could feel and hear and walk within my own rhythm again.
I came home.
Sacred time of mornings is where this permission to listen and follow began.
What is your sacred?
How do you carve out space to hear?
Xxt
Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.
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