“Owning your seat at the table.”
I’ve heard this phrase used a lot recently, and it continues to hit me right in the heart.
For a long time, I didn’t own my seat at the table. In fact, I wholeheartedly believed that I didn’t deserve to be in the room, let alone sitting at the table.
But with age, and wisdom, and insight, and let’s be honest –
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf
It feels like it’s always been there. That niggle. The voice. You know, the one that says “you shouldn’t have that”.
The voice that shoulds all over a nice meal. The one that labels the things we eat as “good” or “bad”. I don’t even know where it came from.
It’s time to just hit post.
“But what if my website isn’t perfect?”
“What if it doesn’t really reflect me anymore?”
“What if no one really cares about or reads blogs anymore?”
“What if I actually don’t have anything to offer?”
What if. What if. What if.
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.
The noise is loud.
But my heart?
Without a doubt, I’m a curious person. I love to seek, discover, and of course google. In this crazy, fast-paced world we have so much information at our fingertips (I’m getting somewhere, I promise) that for a curious soul like me it can actually become a little overwhelming. The desire to learn all of the thingscan get a little out of control.
My seeking nature also means that whirling around in my head is probably too much information at times.
“Honestly and transparency make your vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.” – Mother Teresa.
It can be a scary thing to share our voices. Our true voice. The one that’s aligned to our soul.
It’s easy to strive for perfection, but in turn we not only lose our voice – but we lose the essence of what we are trying to speak about in the first place.
The thing is,
2017. My word? CONNECTION.
Connection most definitely weaved it’s way into my year.
But somehow, when I look back at the past year – I struggle to think about what actually happened. Is it really the end of another year already? The entire year feels like it went by in one big whoosh. Time most definitely did not slow down.
The year that was 2017.
Hey beautiful,
You light up the world. You know that right? You are brave and courageous and filled with love.
You don’t need to be afraid that it won’t work out. It will.
You don’t need to fear that you aren’t enough. You are more than enough, and always will be.
You don’t need to worry about how others will perceive you.