Mindfulness

As you may already know, this year I’ve been working on launching a second hand apparel company, Fold and Fray. Despite any resistance that occasionally comes up, I firmly believe that moving slow is essential.

A few months ago I said to @sparkclarity "I don't think I'm going to look back and be like 'I wish spent more of my late twenties and early thirties on Instagram.'" While we laughed about this and thought it was hilarious, it's real, a serious concern, and I’ve kept thinking about it.

Simplicity is about making time. We only get a certain amount of hours, it's not limitless as we sometimes feel it is. If you didn’t perceive your time to be limitless would you do things differently

Working on yourself to heal and do better is like taking inventory. You first work with what you already know. Layers like onions, peeling back one at a time in a non attached, curious, patient way. Because when you meet a layer you didn’t know about, you treat it with kindness, investigate it, figure out the best way to unravel, how to set that part free.

Rising from a place of destruction, preparing to face things you’d rather not, is like gathering every possible tool for your toolbelt, ready for excavation.

And these things; the ways we hold on, grasp and tighten, are what get in the way of connection, compassion and love; with ourselves, with others, with our body or breath, and gratitude for beauty in the present moment.