Dancing with the Unexpected

I came across this yesterday.

“Humans are allergic to change.”

How come the same humans who resist change expect others, including their dogs to do so quickly, easily and without setbacks?

I understand change evokes some fear.

Fear about the unknown.

Fear that things will be different or unexpected.

Expectation, routine and predictability give us a sense of control.

In fact that control is limiting to our growth.

Control limits your freedom and your dreams.

While our dogs desire a sense of control, us humans are capable of dancing with the unexpected and creating a new understanding of how to prevent scary things from happening to our dogs.

We can learn to lean into fear and see how fear is teaching us how to be more empathetic and compassionate to ourselves and our beloved companions.

Fear can teach us that connection with ourselves and others, heals our past hurts.

When fear bubbles up within you, I invite you turn away from blaming or expecting others to be different or to change.

Instead, ask yourself what is fear showing you?

Listen to the messages you receive. The answers will guide your way!

Resistance Showing You the Way

Last week I saw this meme about what if what’s standing in your way, is the way?

That made me pause.

I wonder, how many of us choose to avoid, circumvent, ignore or try to find ways to work around the whatever is standing in our way?

How much energy are we wasting by putting energy into things we are trying to ignore only for those things to surface again and again until it becomes too unbearable to avoid any further?

What if instead, we considered moving towards our resistance and dismantling those things that are standing in our way one brick at a time?

Well, I put this to the test last week and I’m actively inviting in the resistance to show me the way.

Allowing myself to feel where resistance is showing up and then gently asking it what I need to move through it, the answers were given.

By being able to have uncomfortable conversations or even acknowledging my own trauma responses to situations and being ok with myself that this is another layer of healing I get to do, ease flowed throughout my day.

Healing and learning about ourselves and our dogs is never in a straight line, but knowing that growing and expanding ourselves doesn’t end maybe invites in a bit more of curiosity into what shows up for us.

How can you lean into resistance today? I’m curious to learn what shows up for you!

Hope Lights the Way

Fear is ever present in our day.

When we choose to trust ourselves wholeheartedly, we can begin to move through fear.

Sometimes our trust is tested. Sometimes our trust falters.

Worry seeps in its place.

What brings us back to our sense of trust is hope.

Hope that our current situation will shift and we will expand and the transitions in life will come to pass.

Hold on to hope. It will bring you back to trust so you can push through your fear again.

Learning and growing stretches us and our dogs.

Giving up isn’t an option. Precious lives are at stake.

Lean into trusting yourself so hope can light your way.

Fear then will become something that doesn’t paralyze you, but strengthens your belief within yourself.