Really great peace Monica! I have spent the last 40+ years trying to fix myself in all sorts of different ways. And you nailed it, I’m exhausted from that. And since I’ve given up that quest, I feel happier with who I am and more content with my life. I am so grateful for that.
“There is expansion available to us still — not just physical, but emotional. A growing capacity for presence, for honesty, for noticing what is actually here. Nurturing that expansion, I’ve found, is where the real juice lives.”
(I didn’t mean to hit send yet.🤭). Monica, what if ⬆️that is a gift? What if YOU, are the gift? All your experience, wisdom, presence, stillness is a gift to me. All of your honest writing, honest pictures, the paintings 🌺, your forthrightness…it is all a gift!!
Beautifully written, Monica. Your words perfectly mirror Wayne Dyer’s movie The Shift (2009). It’s that exact 'afternoon of life' transition where we stop trying to 'fix' or achieve, and finally choose meaning, presence, and just being.
I have felt this way most of my life that I have always needed to be fixed in some way or another and at 68 I still feel it. I want to stop but afraid that if I do I will stop all together. I love your posts and look forward to them every day. Thank you for what you do.
Yes! It is enjoying what you have, who you are, breathing it in. So much focus is on fixing yourself, another goal, another "need" to buy something for that fix. Taking time to even know yourself, without comparing yourself to someone else is so important.
Really great peace Monica! I have spent the last 40+ years trying to fix myself in all sorts of different ways. And you nailed it, I’m exhausted from that. And since I’ve given up that quest, I feel happier with who I am and more content with my life. I am so grateful for that.
How did you give up and become content
“There is expansion available to us still — not just physical, but emotional. A growing capacity for presence, for honesty, for noticing what is actually here. Nurturing that expansion, I’ve found, is where the real juice lives.”
(I didn’t mean to hit send yet.🤭). Monica, what if ⬆️that is a gift? What if YOU, are the gift? All your experience, wisdom, presence, stillness is a gift to me. All of your honest writing, honest pictures, the paintings 🌺, your forthrightness…it is all a gift!!
Keep sharing yourself. You are a gift!🎁💝
Your comment stirred something in me that simply wants to keep writing, keep sharing, keep telling the truth as honestly as I can.
Thank you for seeing me so generously.
Beautifully written, Monica. Your words perfectly mirror Wayne Dyer’s movie The Shift (2009). It’s that exact 'afternoon of life' transition where we stop trying to 'fix' or achieve, and finally choose meaning, presence, and just being.
I have felt this way most of my life that I have always needed to be fixed in some way or another and at 68 I still feel it. I want to stop but afraid that if I do I will stop all together. I love your posts and look forward to them every day. Thank you for what you do.
I want to inhabit my life like skin, not a costume. I feel like an onion being peeled back layer by layer to the true Self.
Monica, this is really resonating! and in the same breath we are loving ourselves a bit more each day
I was wondering if in your title you meant: Peace arrives when instead of Peace arrives not when?
Thank you for this beautiful sharing in a new language that speaks to our heart💕
Yes! It is enjoying what you have, who you are, breathing it in. So much focus is on fixing yourself, another goal, another "need" to buy something for that fix. Taking time to even know yourself, without comparing yourself to someone else is so important.