Wednesday is The Power of Trauma & Transformation

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What I would say to you today is this...

Hello Friend,

I am so glad you are here, me too - I made it with you!

This morning as Freedom and I were out for our daily walk I was thinking of what I wanted to share with you today.

I know first it is to keep the promise, that in some way every day, we'll be here and accountable.  Both of us.  I need this as much as I can only imagine you do too some days.

This making the decision, to show up again and again, every 24 hours may seem silly.  But there is a great power in a decision made and then kept.

Which led me on the rabbit trail of thinking how insane this world is and what we actually spend our time focusing on and thinking about.

That when I have shared this idea with others, to be here every day with you, the deafening silence I have been met with from professionals, friends, veterans, and those I know who need it most has astonished me.  But I am not deterred.

The decision to live every day intentionally, with both love and strength, and simply - 24 hours at a time.

The decision to choose who to be and not just react all over the place and then wonder where the last decade went?

And most importantly, to be honest about the love part - not embarrassed - and how hard that has been for me to get over.  Even though I KNOW better.

There is a feeling I've wanted to share, a deep and profound knowing that is best described by TAO - that to know TAO is to laugh.

In a world that is wildly seeking for something it can't name, that once actually found is so simple and true all you can do is laugh.

But while we are seeking very little about it is funny.  Which is what I really wanted to share today.

I don't know what you are thinking, feeling, doing, or wanting today - but this I do know:

It is from the deepest place of pain, betrayal, suffering, and trauma that the truth about what we seek is found. not before, but after.

No one tells you that.  They focus on the get over it, let it go, you'll be okay, and on and on....

But before you do let it go first, look at what it is.  This terrible pain is also the moment in which if you so choose (your mission!) to not run or hide or distract or avoid . . .

will transform you - will reveal to you - will allow you - to become the REAL you that you have been seeking all along.  And someday.....

You will laugh.

But not today.  Today you made it here, after 24 hours from yesterday.  And tomorrow you will be here.  24 hours from today.

Simple.  Clear.  Focused.  Real.

And with that my friend, from my heart to yours
I will see you in 24,
Jill

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