One of the posts I enjoy writing the most is a link up with Emily P. Freeman. I really enjoy writing what I learned this summer. Basically she divides the year into seasons 3 months each and takes the time to look back and reflect upon them. I find this practice gives me enough time to think about all that has changed and also helps me with moving forward to a new point in time. Simple is BetterI fall into the trap that I am pretty sure most of us do where I think something new and shiny must be better. One of the ways this has occurred is with breakfast. I have decided that I want to try out new breakfast recipes, when what ultimately ends up happening is that I do not like them and would have preferred my standard go to breakfasts. This is true with breakfast, but it is also true in many other parts of our lives. My husband is an engineer and he often states that when you add more moving parts you have more opportunities for the machine to fail. I think this is true of life as well. We try to add in all the things, with the American ideal of "having it all" urging us along, when in reality we do not need all the things. By complicating our lives we make them more chaotic and stressful and can lose sight of what really matter. It does not matter how much you can accomplish if you aren't treating those around you well. I am finding in this season of much change that simple is best, less things, less on my plate and making space for what is to come just feels right. It is the simple things in life that allow us the time to stop and see a rainbow. To recognize what is around us in nature and to watch the seasons unfold. Trusting My BodyOne specific effort I made since being pregnant is to listen to my body. Not to eat what I think I should, not to try to psych myself out but to simply listen and respond in kind. I think this summer I have gotten the hang of it. I have eaten when I am hungry stopped before I am overly full and am able to better adjust for what my body needs. I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I am finding more and more that my body knows what it needs. It has taken me until a few recent weeks to actually look pregnant and I think that was trusting my body as well. I do not need the visual to know I am pregnant and that I can feel the baby moving around. I am trusting it to do what it needs to do. I think ultimately being able to listen to my body is a skill I will take with me for years to come. My body is not to be doubted and second guessed, but rather to be trusted as a source of information. Now that I feel I can actually do that I can move onto something else and find peace in places it never existed before. Letters are great mailThis summer I was inspired by my dad to write letters with him the old fashioned way. When I was younger I used to write more letters in an effort to save the post office myself. Yes, for some reason I believed me using it would be enough to make their business model viable. Nowadays I do not send letters that frequently, but I have started sending a few and it feels so nice to sit down and get some words on paper and to really be able to sit with your thoughts long enough to write them down. Also then getting a letter in the mail is usually a piece of joy mixed in amongst the bills. Appreciate the seasonIn the past I have been one who has wanted to rush through summer and have it be fall already and this year I am instead relishing summer. I am enjoying summer produce and loving the parts that are uniquely summer, wearing shorts and just enjoying the sunshine. I think we oftentimes want to hurry up and move on, or at least I do and this year I feel like I have been better able to be present and appreciate all that summer has to offer me. What have you learned this summer? If you want to read more click here to see others reflections on the summer.
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9/2/2019 10:23:51 pm
I love writing letters. I wish people still did that instead of typing sometimes. It feels way more authentic.
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