May 27, 2024

Aggressively happy that it’s springtime 🌞

I’ve been having beautiful conversations recently about tenderness and softness and emergence.

At my monthly women’s circle yesterday we checked in about how we’re feeling (mind/body/spirit) and the common theme was: We’re good, despite all evidence pointing to the possibility of not being good. We’re happy and thriving and enjoying and we know that sometimes we’re also not. This life is an exercise in contrasts. We can hold two opposing opinions with grace and love and tenderness, instead of with vitriol. When we’re good, let’s own it and share it with the world.

The world needs people who are thriving. People who are lit up about what they’re doing. People who have the capacity to feel. We need people who experience the full range of emotions without smooshing some of them down, people who are training themselves to feel very, very tender— even though hardening your edges might be an easier path to choose.

We need people who, despite it all, believe in the power of community and connection and one-ness.

The questions I’m hearing:
-is it okay to be happy, despite the state of the world? (yes)
-can I be soft and squishy and go-with-flow, and still “get things done”? (also yes)
-should I be feeling guilty or ashamed if life is good and I share about it? (no)
-and the ever present theme: what can I do if I’m good and other around me are not? (be. of. service.)

Mainly: it’s okay. Being human is hard. Try tenderness and softness and vulnerability and if that feels like too much— go out and spend five minutes with sun on your face. Make it a goal to experience aggressive happiness. Repeat, repeat.