Cheers, dear readers,
It is fantastic to be writing to you here today! I have missed this wonderful creative and therapeutic outlet which also serves as a way to support and send love and hope to this courageous community. As a bonus tip to anyone reading this: If you are struggling emotionally, please consider taking pen to paper or your fingers to your keyboard. Getting your emotions and thoughts out on “paper” can truly be life changing, healthy, and an excellent way to get challenging and draining emotions OUT of your mind and your body! If you keep them bottled up inside it can lead to depression, my friends — and I can tell you first-hand, that is no picnic! All of our emotions are just that: simply normal, natural, human emotions. Yet there are productive ways to release them and share them, and not so productive ways that may also hurt those around us. A word of caution though: Our words have amazing POWER —> both to heal or to hurt.
That brings me to the first point of this blog post: Be Impeccable with Your Word as a way to personal freedom and joy. I have written here in the past about my de-cluttering mission that I spoke about after reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Well days ago, I was organizing, de-cluttering, and “KonMari”-ing my vast book collection. This whole process is cathartic and powerful as we take each item we own and ask “Does this spark joy”? As I diligently charged forward on this rather difficult task, I came across a book that sparks so much joy in my life that I own two copies. If you are wondering, yes I kept both! I already re-read one copy, and lent the other copy to a loved one before he went on vacation.
The book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a game-changer, my friends! I cherished and loved this book when I read it in my 20s as a hopeful youth, and I cherish it just as much reading it now in my 40s as an empowered, infertility survivor, mature women. I encourage you to get a copy for yourself and dive into the wisdom of this book. But I will share just some morsels of its incredibly wise words.
Brief Summary: “In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.”
I hope these words offered here help you on your infertility journey, and offer inspiration and maybe some guidelines to live an awesome life, whether things are going your way, or even when they are going horribly wrong. You can be resilient and strong through it all! We are here to support you on your journey.
Please join Julia next week to hear more about her own personal journey down the infertility path. I look forward to speaking with you soon. I wish you the best on your respective journey.
Warm regards,
Cathy
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