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We are all different, yet we are all the same.
My new business launched last week. Strong Peaceful Women. (www.strongpeacefulwomen.com)
I was hoping to have 8 women join to pilot the program. I was astonished when I realized the ever-growing list blossomed to 25 courageous women, from all over the country, all wanting to learn more about my philosophy of combining mind, body, spirit and service for overall peace and happiness. Huge honor. Huge responsibility.
Quickly I have learned, their stories are MY story. Their stories are YOUR stories. For we are all different, yet all the same. We all long for acceptance, we all long for love, we all long for peace, we all long for happiness. Each with our unique challenges, but challenges we all face nonetheless.
I’m on a huge Kacey Musgraves kick, and found this song that spoke to me in each of our journeys towards finding love (which by the way….always, always, always, always needs to come from within before we are ever open to finding true love in another) and finding peace.
For over a decade, I worked in community. I facilitated groups, I volunteered on fundraising committees, I corralled runners to join the “Gilda’s Runners” team and train to run a half or a full marathon…..all done in community. I quickly learned the power of community. Not in the common concept of “it takes a village”, yet not dislike it either. It is in community where we realize….hey, others are struggling in this thing called life too. I don’t need to struggle alone, and perhaps in having others along on the journey with me, I will find strength and courage in whatever I am facing in life.
But let us not forget, community is stronger when we become strong individually. When we learn to love ourselves not DESPITE our flaws, but WITH our flaws.
“……We’re all hoping and we’re hopeless. We’re all thorns and we’re all roses. We’re all looking down our noses at ourselves. We’re all flawed & we’re all perfect. We’re all lost and we’re all hurting….”
YES!
May be if we spent more time opening up to others about our REAL life, struggles and all, instead of posting on Facebook or Instagram or …… the life we WANT others to think we are living, we’d find a way towards loving ourselves just a little bit more, knowing we are all different, yet the same in this journey called life.
Love this one so much…think I’ll just end with that as my final thought today.
Peace…….
peaceinthejourney 