My god, life can change or be over in an instant.
I just saw the post of a facebook friend. Twenty hours ago she and her husband were planning to go to a boat show. This morning she is announcing his passing from a massive heart attack. They met when she was 11 years old. Married the day after her 17th birthday, and had been together for 36 years.
Such news leaves me speechless at the immediacy of it all.
There is of course that feeling of loss and sadness, which floods of people are now expressing as she and her family adjust to this momentous change in their lives.
There is also the other side of the coin, which will come probably much later, where one is also grateful and appreciative that you got to find and spend so much of your life with a person that you adored. Many go through their whole lifetime never finding what they would describe as: ‘The One’, or worse still, finding them but never expressing their feelings or making that first move.
I have no idea what comes after this life and whether there is another incarnation like this one.
Just in case, and regardless, I am so very happy that I found a way to get out of the living prison that I once created inside of my own mind.
My mental limitations and boundaries were constructed in early childhood and continued to be further built up and reinforced throughout my teenage years and twenties. By the time I hit 30 they were, (or so I believed) very firmly in place and that was my lot in life.
I was lucky enough at the age of 32 to not just hit what was rock bottom for me, but to hit so hard that chinks were formed in my mental armour. Through those chinks, and from what was a place of quiet desperation, a little bit of light, of hope, of there being another way and other options, began to shine through.
I thank goodness that I chose not to retreat back into my shell, but to pick up the gauntlet and run with it.
How awful it would have been to live my whole life trapped within the imaginary confines that I’d constructed for myself in my head all those years ago; living life as though I was on the outside looking in.
I am so #LuckyandGrateful to have found a way out and through.
Here’s to living the life that you have to the extent and fullness that you choose to live it.
ABOUT MARILYN DEVONISH
Marilyn Devonish is The Soul Awakening & Empowerment Coach, Alchemic Therapist, and Freelance Writer. With a long and eclectic background in personal development her qualifications and certifications include: Certified Trainer of NLP, Certified Trainer of Hypnosis, Certified Trainer of Time Line Therapy, Certified PhotoReading Instructor, Certified Angel Tarot Card Reader, Certified Soul Plan Reader. She is also a Practitioner of: Hawaiian Huna, Access Consciousness, EFT, EmoTrance, Positive EFT, Energetic NLP, DNA Theta Healing, Access Bars, Reiki, and Archetypal Profiling. Other modalities also include OTH (Opening The Heart), Reflective Repatterning, and Quantum Touch.
She is also a Business Graduate, Prince2 Project Manager, Management Consultant, and Corporate Trainer.
Marilyn uses her extensive knowledge to create a unique Coaching and Therapeutic experience for her private clients.
Website: www.tranceformationsTM.com
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