One Balanced Life

The theme for a Personal Renewal Group I'm facilitating this month is reconnecting and I love it!

In the last few weeks I was able to reconnect with two things I used to love to do and haven't in soooooooooo long. A little over two decades (ouch) ago I loved designing outfits (I wanted to be a designer). I devoured fashion magazines and prowled the stores to come up with funky unique outfits. Basically I had a sense of style. But due to factors like: an overwhelming job, lack of funds (too many years post-secondary followed by a job in the mental health field), weight gain, babies, and a bunch of other stuff....I stopped and felt like I lost my sense of style. I've started to play with my wardrobe a little again and am having a ton of fun realizing I still have it....a little style that is. I also LOVE live music and so does my husband. We recently attended a great charity event, which happened to include a concert with a band I saw when I was 17. It was so fun for us to reconnect with each other and with our shared passion for music.

Becoming a mother forced me to see that I needed to reconnect with my mojo not only for myself but for my children as well. My (made up) definition of reconnecting is basically getting back in touch with your essence...whatever makes you you. One way to do this is to reconnect with activities that make you feel alive and joyful. Whether it is your job, children, age, or life....we often find ourselves fondly recalling the times we lost ourselves in activities....like climbing, cardmaking, cooking, skiing...I'm sure you have one. So make a committment to reconnect with a passion you used to lose yourself in. Do it today.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it as serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Check out this wonderful free workshop I'm co-facilitating at Blooma Sunday the 14th. A great opportunity to explore cesarean birth and VBAC.

Fall, I love everything about it! The crisp morning air, the smell and color of the leaves, the return of socks and sweatshirts. It has always been a time of transition for me. A time of endings, beginnings, births, and losses. Also a time of renewal and reinvention. After a chaotic summer made crazy with remodeling projects, my husband’s (almost) three week absence, and my mother’s diagnosis of breast cancer (thankfully she is doing wonderfully) I’ve found myself needing to get back to the basics. That means taking time to regularly connect with myself (not using free time for laundry, painting trim, or working), “being” with my family vs. doing things with my family, and simplifying (do I need to keep the maternity bridesmaid dress that made me look like a giant raspberry?).

What does getting back to the basics mean for you?