Beautifully written! I also have that book by Melody Beattie, I’ve been reading it for over 2 years and its lessons still give me those necessary reminders☺️💟
Hello! I’m new here. Thank you so much for your wonderful poem. May I ask what the book title is? I read a lot by Melody Beattie in the early 2000s, but not lately. My favorite quote that I still use now is something like “Let it be, wait and see, then decide if this is what I want.“
Thank you so much! Yes, I used to read "The Language of Letting Go" regularly. I read her memoir, "Beyond Codependency" and still remember how powerful it was.
That is so very true!!! There is this expectation that you should just feel happy about a good thing when in reality, we feel more than one thing at the same time.
This is gorgeous and so so true. I love that I've fallen down a rabbit hole into your writing and so grateful to have found your writing.
It took me years to accept the flip side. For a long time, I thought only the hard things could be the right things. Accepting ease as "correct" has been a glorious awakening in my life.
Hmmm I hear you! I have believed that for so long as well. Only the hard things are right! But how beautiful to discover that that is not the only truth right?
Thank you for being here Noha! You are very much appreciated ❤️
That I can be right and the other who disagrees with me, right too. Rightness is overrated. That I can be wrong even when I’m right and right even when I’m wrong. I’ll stop before I tie myself into knots.
I absolutely love this, SO beautiful! There's never just one way to experience, feel or learn something. That last line though. YES.
Is this your first substack comment???? 🥹 Welcome home friend! And thank you for the love!
Beautifully written! I also have that book by Melody Beattie, I’ve been reading it for over 2 years and its lessons still give me those necessary reminders☺️💟
Thank you Sarina! I only got the book last month because I wanted some kind of ritual for my mornings. I really like it so far ❤️
Hello! I’m new here. Thank you so much for your wonderful poem. May I ask what the book title is? I read a lot by Melody Beattie in the early 2000s, but not lately. My favorite quote that I still use now is something like “Let it be, wait and see, then decide if this is what I want.“
It's "Journey to the heart", not a book per se, it's a short reflection for every day of the year. So I read one every day.
Thank you so much! Yes, I used to read "The Language of Letting Go" regularly. I read her memoir, "Beyond Codependency" and still remember how powerful it was.
That you can work towards your dreams but also that you are allowed to have ease.
Thank you for sharing this Sana ❤️ I love it! And it's so true. The wisdom is knowing what to choose at what point.
You can be happy about something happening and still be overwhelmed by it. Very beautiful words, thank you for sharing them :)
That is so very true!!! There is this expectation that you should just feel happy about a good thing when in reality, we feel more than one thing at the same time.
Both I can have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and a deep knowing that knows what I'm doing 🤪
That's a weird one isn't it! 😂
It really is a strange one to navigate! 😂
Absolutely wonderful. Thanks for sharing ❤️
Thank you for reading Erika ❤️ I'm so happy this spoke to you!
BEAUTIFUL piece Nadia 🌷
Simplicity is both "simple" and "profound".
So very true!!! I find that most things in life are 'and'.
Both are true, that you can savor the sweetness of forgiveness and still have a lifetime's way to go.
Ah, this!!!! Or that we can forgive, but keep our distance too. ❤️
This is gorgeous and so so true. I love that I've fallen down a rabbit hole into your writing and so grateful to have found your writing.
It took me years to accept the flip side. For a long time, I thought only the hard things could be the right things. Accepting ease as "correct" has been a glorious awakening in my life.
Hmmm I hear you! I have believed that for so long as well. Only the hard things are right! But how beautiful to discover that that is not the only truth right?
Thank you for being here Noha! You are very much appreciated ❤️
Both. This is the blessing of faith. To keep going inspite of not knowing how or why
Much like Persephone. If she can be the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld, I am pretty sure we can welcome our mortal life's dualism.
That I can be right and the other who disagrees with me, right too. Rightness is overrated. That I can be wrong even when I’m right and right even when I’m wrong. I’ll stop before I tie myself into knots.