Hey Surfers! Why don't we leave our boards on the beach today?
Let's sit on the sand, enjoy the view, watch the sunset and... breathe.
Life is not always about fighting waves.
Sometimes the best thing to do is... Nothing.
Most people are scared of emptiness, loneliness, nothingness.
Yet, answers hide in our silent moments.
Those moments when the only person we want to please is ourselves.
Those moments that feel like a blank page, a white canvas, an empty room...
When we think about it, we spend our lives trying to make other people happy, trying to fit in, trying to be a part of something, which means we never really start from zero, never really start from what speaks to our hearts.
Now, what if you had the power to erase your life right now and to draw a new one, to write your own story.
What would it look like?
What would the colours be?
Where would you be?
What would you do?
What kind of people would you need to be able to be fully yourself?
From time to time, life knocks at our doors and press the stop or reset button for us. Unfortunately it often comes with pain, but this pain is only due to our resistance to change, unless you lost someone you loved, which is very different. If we surrender and admit that we need a change, things suddenly become so much easier and lighter.
So here you are, facing an empty page, with a chance to be yourself and create something brand new. A chance to finally give yourself the love you deserve. A chance to be everything you've ever wanted to be. Scary, right?
Many times in my life I tried to fit in, to be one thing, because people always told me I had to make a choice and stick to it. To be either a singer, a painter, a writer, a mother, a gamer, a dancer, a coach... But not all of this.
But all these things are different pieces of me. If I push one aside, I feel incomplete, and sad.
What about you now? What makes you happy? Who/What makes you smile? Laugh? Cry?
It's important to understand the things that make you happy to be able to face a new beginning, because that's definitely the direction you're aiming at.
If you don't, you will run back to your old habits and repeat the same story again and again.
Look at the different pieces that make you you and embrace them all.
Change is scary, very scary.
Changing means walking this life alone, holding the hand of the unknown, not knowing what's coming next.
If suddenly your whole life seems to be blown away, then this is a chance for you to become... you. Simply you. The simplest version of you. The easiest version of you. And to attract people who will love you just the way you are.
If you fake it, you take the risk to be loved by people who love a fake version of you.
If you are you, then you will attract different people, maybe lose the ones who used to be your friends, teammates, fans... but you will be loved by the right people. The ones who love the real you.
This is PRICELESS.
This is how you will feel FREE.
This, will make you HAPPY. Because you won't have to cheat anymore and to be someone you are not.
So cheers to our blank pages, our resets and new beginnings.
Make yourself happy first and be everything you want to be.
And if you need someone to hold your hand as you face change, then just remember I am here, I've experienced change so many times in my life that I can help you face yours.
Feel free to contact me or comment this post.
Happy surfing!
Sending French hugs
Joanna 🦋
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