Dear Friends,
Crying is such good medicine.
But it is not always easy to allow ourselves to do. We have learned to stuff our emotions in the moment because they are inconvenient to this fast-pasted life we find ourselves living.
Last night I watched “The Notebook” with one of my two sons. Sad romantic movies always make me cry, but if I’m watching with another person, it’s just the tears that I can’t keep from squeezing out of my eyes that I allow.
This morning, while sitting at my altar with a candle lit, my thoughts wandered to the movie and I cried full out. I allowed Allie and Noah’s stormy in the beginning, unrealistic life-long love to be the catalyst for tears I needed to cry for myself.
For my own young, idealistic, unrealistic desires. Not only for love, but for my dreams, for my life, and for the world.
There is healing that happens in our bodies, minds, emotions, and Spirits when we deeply experience a full-body cry.
Next time you realize that you’ve tucked away the tears for some later time, but that later time doesn’t come, or you make space for it but the tears don’t come, try watching a sad movie, alone. And let the tears flow… for the characters… but mostly for you.
Blessings and Courage,
Betti