An Angel in my Car

Posted on November 14, 2020November 14, 2020 by tinaoverbury

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About it

I’m struggling with it

It’s not new

but it

looks

so damn easy,

also not new

I hear

can be,

easy

I keep hearing it

I should know it

by now

Like really know how

by now

Like if I don’t know,

by now,

then there’s got to be something wrong with me

because I’ve watched every damn video there is

about

and I still can’t seem to get

So I read the books

you recommend

about it

Listen to the words

you tell me

And keep telling me

And telling me

About

And I ask for more

Because I want

And it

looks so easy

it seems

So easy

But it’s

not

for me.

I ask

What else don’t I know about

it?

You know I even had someone create a meditation for me

About it.

I slept with

it,

the meditation

and I dreamt about

Woke up with it

Spoke with it

Joked with it

Croaked with it

I didn’t toke with it

I don’t

smoke

I think I’ve had it

Because your encouragement is

starting to feel

like nagging

The truth is

I suck

at it

being supported

and ocean swimming

has been my greatest teacher

Where We’ve Been – Circa 2017

Pre-Triathlon Iron Man 5150

I was four months out of cancer treatment when I started training for the Iron Man 5150 (Olympic distance triathlon). I could barely swim ten strokes without losing my breath.

I had suffered a shoulder injury after a full on knock down drag ’em out with young son and couldn’t rotate my shoulder.

But I was committed to the race. I trained with a kickboard up to ten days before the swim. After being told I would be disqualified if I brought my trusty board, I panicked. This video is less than seven days before the swim.

So an Angel took a seat in my truck today. Just in time.

This year on December 25th, which is both Christmas Day and my 50th Birthday, I am stepping into a new story…

and I know what I know what I know about how stories work:

Stories won’t let go until they’ve been fully heard.

This is release #6 of sixteen Story Hits (vlogs) from as far back as 2013. Some are my favourites, some are yours. If you missed week #1 or more and want to start from the beginning, you can start here with: Out of the Water.

I will be writing more about these moments in both my upcoming book: STORY STONES (coming fall 2021, and in my one woman show: O MY GOD (touring spring 2021).

I have to close one story to open another.

Thank you for listening.

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 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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