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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
it
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,
it
by now,
then there’s got to be something wrong with me
because I’ve watched every damn video there is
about
it
and I still can’t seem to get
it
So I read the books
you recommend
about it
Listen to the words
you tell me
And keep telling me
And telling me
And telling me
And telling me
About
it
And I ask for more
Because I want
it
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
it
Woke up with it
Spoke with it
Joked with it
Croaked with it
I didn’t toke with it
I don’t
smoke
it
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.
xT
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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