Crafting A Balanced Life
Let’s craft a balanced life that rests on a firm foundation of inner peace and clarity. That’s a mighty tall order in this turbo-charged world though, isn’t it?
Balancing the hard and fast realities of our lives with the needs of our tender soul and the absolute necessity of de-exciting our hypervigilant nervous systems requires a sincere personal evaluation of our current stress-filled lifestyle and some exquisite lifetime, self-care planning.
Mind you, I’m not talking about giving up adventures and moving to the country to knit and raise miniature goats, unless that’s your jam—then go for that. Rather I’m talking about crafting a daily life that doesn’t feel like an endless marathon. I want my life to ‘feel right’ right Now. Do you? Then let’s do this thing! Here’s a few of things I’ll be concentrating on this year:
- Boundaries- how to establish them in every relationship and situation.
- Determining your top ten values and how to use them to make the best possible decisions for yourself every time.
- How to get to neutral, emotionally, with those who have hurt, disappointed or betrayed you. No pressure to forgive. But it might just happen spontaneously.
- How to create your own happiness that can’t be crushed by outside influences.
- How to be your own loving parent and stop yearning for your biological parents to morph into the perfect parents you’ve spent an enormous amount of energy fantasizing about.
- How to permanently lower the baseline of your nervous system and thereby reduce the underlying chronic stress your body endures every day. Which will, consequently, lower the amount of cortisol and adrenaline coursing through your system.
- How to fill your life with people and pursuits that enhance your internal source of happiness and negate the unhappiness of your past. Fun and happiness have their own set of hormones and neurochemicals which you have the power to create within yourself. Oh yeah, you do!
The part of the recovery journey I’m focusing on all this year are the aspects that are covered in Part III of WORTHY A Personal Guide for Healing Your Childhood Trauma—which is—Preserving, Sustaining and Protecting Your Recovery.
Even though it’s the last section of the book it is relevant for everyone who has experienced childhood trauma and who is attempting to craft a life that is safe, loving, fun and allows them to be fully themselves without the approval of others—talk about liberated!
From the introduction page:
“Part III is the keystone in The Childhood Trauma Recovery for Adults Program. It is the glue that keeps all the previous recovery pieces in place. Its direction serves as a solid plan for lifetime maintenance of our current stage of recovery and as a springboard into further growth and clarity. As we tend to ourselves, on a daily basis, we safeguard all the progress we have made and continue to positively rewire our brains, thus opening our hearts to love, trust and emotional intimacy. Our potential for joy, giving and receiving love, self-expression and success in all our endeavors soars as we preserve, sustain and protect our recovery progress.”
Although we each have different dreams and the external landscapes of our lives are divergent in myriad ways, we share a highly similar internal landscape. Knowing this, I will be purposefully moving us forward this year in crafting lives for ourselves that rest on a foundation of inner peace and clarity which can’t help but translate into a happiness that doesn’t rely on external influences.
I’ll only be sending out one email monthly. But you can tune-in for inspiration, self-care insight and tips, and loads of encouragement on the Worthy As We Are Facebook page and Instagram account of the same name. You can select the icons on this page to follow along there. Click on any of the photos below to purchase and join along on this fresh focus at Worthy As We Are.
