Lightgiver Performance Coaching

That is not a typo. I was with my community group last night and we read the poem “for when it is too much to handle”. The poem talks about the inevitability of difficulty in life. You will have ups, but you are also guaranteed to have downs as well. It ends with an encouragement to “…invite your emotions to tea, and listen. They might not stay long.”

Humans experience a wide array of emotions. Though this is a good thing, we often see them getting in the way of our success. Our anger blinds our ability, and our disappointment deflates our drive. Avoidance of these emotions only makes them compound, until it eventually is too much. So we must sit. When we sit with our emotions we learn about them, and about ourselves. Why do we feel this way? What is the true underlying reason for this hurt? Not only can we learn about ourselves and how to work through the emotion, we can learn how to harness them and repurpose the hurt into motivation and encouragement. It will be difficult. Often very difficult. But when we can take a sacred pause, each layer we uncover sheds that much weight holding us back.

What you discover might just surprise you…holy sit.