BRAVERY 52 | List 47

LIST 47 | List the ways you feel assured and secure in who you are, where you are, and what you aspire toward.

Honestly, is there an option? I have spent the better part of 57 years doing all I can to be who I am right now, today. Flawed, certainly. Showing up and doing my best, always.

I’m more secure in who I am now than I have ever been. The last two years were filled with many unexpected experiences. Mostly, I learned how to be a loving partner and that I’m worthy of not just being one but having a companion I can allow to trust and love me unconditionally. My overwhelming grief as a result of Bill’s death holds more lessons I’d liked to have put off for a few decades but I am but a speck of dust in the universe and have no control over timelines. Grief truly is love with no place to go.

My home circumstance has changed beyond anything I could have imagined. I traded sunrises for sunsets, leaving my home by Lake Ontario of 23+ years (population 211,000) to a seaside town on Lake Huron (population 3,700). Though I’m only just settling in, it was the change I needed.

Going forward I aspire to relentlessly pursue more of how I want to feel every day: gratitude, joy, luminous, agency, magic, success, flow, love, order, release, creativity, peace, connection, and delight.

How am I going to do that? Trust my instincts and consistently practice those things that I know bring out the best in me; honour the boundaries I have created; and, continue to stay open and say an enthusiastic yes to any and all opportunities. I will continue to seek out the good while addressing the challenges. I truly believe the best is yet to come.