True story. Yesterday I spent the better part of an afternoon crafting a newsletter to my community. In it I attempted to describe the five most important insights I had gained in my personal well-nourished woman journey. Tough to distill it down to five but I thought I did a pretty good job.
I pressed “save.”
I glanced at the email.
I blinked once.
I blinked twice.
All but one short paragraph of the email had disappeared. I pressed every command key I could think of to get those words back on the page, kicking myself for not saving the newsletter in another form.
What was I thinking?
I heard my husband getting ready for our dinner date. I heard a little voice inside my head saying, “Release, Surrender, Embrace, Trust.” (No that’s not some sort of “signature” system. Just a voice of pure desperation. A launch weary voice.)
So I released the belief that this email was the one that would make or break my last attempt to invite YOU, my beloved community, into the sacred space I have been creating for your journey into a fully expressed life.
I surrendered to the universe the idea that the insights I had crafted in that email were the ones my community most needed to hear in this moment.
I embraced the opportunity to hit the “send” button and leap out of my chair to go off and enjoy a wonderful meal with my husband at one of my favorite restaurants.
I trusted that I had just the right number and just the right women enrolled in my next round of the Well-Nourished Woman Inner Circle.
And those tips?
I decided to leave you with a few quotes instead.
On ARTful eating:
“I repent of my diets, the delicious dishes rejected out of vanity, as much as I lament the opportunities for making love that I let go of because of pressing tasks or puritanical virtue.”
~ Isabel Allende
On ARTful living and creative expression:
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
~Mary Oliver
On BODYwisdom:
“Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who trusts her inner sense of what is right for her.
Who refuses to twist her life out of shape to meet the expectations of others.”
~Patricia Lynn Reilly
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8 thoughts on “Launch Weary”
Sue Ann, You always make the best of things! And that’s why I read what you write. Thanks for sharing something that has happened to us all…that moment of “almost done”, that gets squished by something out of the blue…and we have to realign, soothe ourselves and begin again. It is the same when an illness overtakes us and we face a new reality…., in perseverance we gain new insights and find WE ARE ENOUGH! What a great recovery and I know your program will be a huge success! Sending love for your next new beginning!
“I refuse to twist my life out of shape, to meet the expectations of others.” Boy, that’s an affirmation most women should repeat over and over..I love it!
ahhhhhhhhh… the surrender. How sweet it is after alllllll the many times we have instead suffered it through to another round and exhausted ourselves. Comes with wisdom, which comes over time.
And you are RIGHT! THIS is ENOUGH! and so soooooo exquisite… both in your modeling of ‘the way’ to live a well nourished life… and these remarkable quotes which have an eternal presence to them. Just as you do.
Thank you for continuing to honor this World with your presence and your Wisdom that is indeed nourishing us alllll so deeply.
Looking forward to my continued journey with your work, dearest Sue Ann!
… and with you!
Sue Ann, that’s why I’ve often considered digging out the ol’ Smith Corona. At least I can sort through discarded drafts in the wastebasket! But technology is here to stay, as is the occasional “where did it go?!”
The way you handled it was an excellent example of how a Well Nourished Woman acts, thinks, prioritizes… dinner with the hubby was more important than an electronic media snafu. You not only honored him, you honored yourself — PLAY has been in your credo for as long as I’ve known you — and you remained true to your values.
By the way, I got both e-mails (loved your attention-getting subject line on the 2nd one, lol!) and I wish you every success in this round of Well Nourished Woman.
While I can only wonder at what those tips might have been, I feel well nourished by the quotes you chose. I admire and respect your willingness to surrender and trust. Neither are easy things to do.
Great newsletter, Sue Ann! I am citing your blog as one of my favorites in a blog class I’m attending!
Also, citing Chocolate for Breakfast!
What touches me most in this story is that you kept your dinner date with your husband. You didn’t holler downstairs saying, “There’s been a crisis and I have to rework this.”
First you nourish yourself.
When you live authentically that which you intend to teach…well people notice and want more of what you have.