Could You Look Upon Yourself With Love And Loveliness, Even If Only For A Moment

I heard this poem last week at an Inner Wisdom retreat with Nikki Rivera’s Moxie (www.moxieexperiences.com) and wanted to share it with you. It’s by Patricia Lynn Reilly. Read it aloud if you can and let the words sink into your heart.

Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman.


A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.


Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.

Imagine a woman who trusts and respects herself.

A woman who listens to her needs and desires.

Who meets them with tenderness and grace.

Imagine a woman who acknowledges the past’s influence on the present.


A woman who has walked through her past.


Who has healed into the present.

Imagine a woman who authors her own life.

A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.


Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and wisest voice.

Imagine a woman who names her own gods.

A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.


Who designs a personal spirituality to inform her daily life.

Imagine a woman in love with her own body.


A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.


Who celebrates its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.

Imagine a woman who honors the body of the Goddess in her changing body.

A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.


Who refuses to use her life-energy disguising the changes in her body and life.

Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.


A woman who sits in circles of women.


Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.

Try this ONE thing

Now imagine yourself as this woman.

 

Want to experience coaching? I like to start with a deep, get-to-know-you conversation to see if we are right for each other. Sometimes we talk for one or two hours at no charge. I have no goal except to bring about transformation. Together we work on the lies, the self-deception, the fears of the power you perceive to be outside yourself. We work on your on your difficulties in making decisions and your inability thus far to make bold choices in life and to follow through and trust yourself completely to do so.

The irony for some people is that the very thing that they want the coaching for (an indecisive, half-hearted life) is what’s keeping them from deciding whether to get coaching.

When you’re ready, reach out @ karen.laidlaw.theONEthing@outlook.com. Meanwhile, enjoy the blog!