Life can suck.

Even with all of the wonderful, amazing things we have in our lives- Don't roll your eyes, you have them too.

Life can still just throw you for some real curve balls.

When we were younger, I am sure most of us were taught to "suck it up", "handle it", "wipe your tears, quit your cryin, smile and move on".

Most of us grew up with the belief that you don't let em see you cry, you don't share your private business and you certainly don't dwell on it.

But as children, when we are being told these things, what we are really being taught is to never acknowledge these feelings, to never experience a basic and normal human experience.

Being sad, being hurt, being confused, being angry or frustrated, being anxious, uncertain or just in a bad mood is just as normal as being happy, joyful, peaceful, clear, confident, and in a good mood.

When we push the "bad" feelings down and try to skip over a human experience, in an attempt to look strong, look tough, look resilient. 

We are actually weakening our core. We become so fragile, so vulnerable. We crumble and crack. 

We manifest anxiety and depression because we don't allow ourselves to experience what we are going through- and the key words are "going through".

We cant skip it, we cant jump over it, hop it, go around it, under it or over it, we have to go through it to come out on the other side.

We have to let ourselves be ok with experiencing  the good bad and the ugly. We have to surrender to they way we are feeling and experience what we need to SO THAT, we can let it go and move forward.

If we don't we are only carrying more and more baggage to the next stop and eventually we are going to become so tired and weak that we can no longer carry this around and we breakdown. Our souls are crushed, our spirit dimmed, our confidence gone, our resilience dust.

When you accept and acknowledge that having and experiencing a human experience such as pain, sadness, despair, sorrow, anger etc. You allow yourself the mercy and grace you need to be able to move on from that, you open the door to find power in your experience and you allow it to propel you into more of an empowered life.

You discover so many amazing things about yourself. Your resilience grows. Your confidence unmeasurable, your strength can move mountains.

It is in the silence and the stiff upper lip that we become weak and insecure. 

It is in acceptance and experience that we become resilient and confident.

xoxo-

Megan