Thank you for checking out the site and I hope you connect if you feel I may be a right fit for you.
I hope to use this blog to provide an additional resource on varying topics on mental health and well-being. For now, I wanted to share a passage I read in 2010 that still resonates with me today; it touches on the concepts of meaning, acceptance and presence and how it may come from a balance of celebration and tolerance. That is, our need to tolerate life when it needs tolerating and to celebrate life when the moments call for it. Maybe, you’ll find some parts resonating with you as well.
By Oriah, from the book The Invitation (1999)
“So I sat down to write at my desk, in the dim light of the street lamp outside my window. Since I was a child, I have written to understand myself and the world, to find the stories that show me the meaning I can make of my life…
As the words flowed, I recognized a voice that has always been there within me: the voice that passionately seeks life’s purpose; the voice of the tired heart that longs for real intimacy and deep rest; the voice that asks me to be fully present with it all – the pain and the joy, the beauty and the sorrow, the inner silence and the noise of the world.”