“My soul is a broken field
plowed by pain.”

-- Sara Teasdale

Oh help! I am so stressed today.

This isn’t new, but today, I’m approaching it in a new way. Today, I am willing to really feel the tension, the welling of tears behind my eyes. I accept that I am in pain and I allow myself to be there. No attempts to fight it off. No condemnation that I shouldn’t be feeling this way. Just a willingness to be authentically where I am.

I breathe deeply, opening to my experience. The tears flow. With more and more deep breaths, the tension eases. There's still a heaviness but the energy is moving again. This too shall pass.

~ Patrice

“Suffering is part of the human condition. It needs to be held in the same way that joy and uplift need to be held – wakefully, as a mature adult.”

-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

“If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?”