LEA WEST

Years ago, I started the book “beautiful you – a daily guid to Radical Self-Acceptance” by Rosie Molinary. I made it to Day 52, which is impressive considering I had two children underfoot at the time.

Nearly 10 years later, I’m at a point in my life where I need to turn inward. I’ve been building professionally and in all ways outwardly. I’ve been building my brain, my business sense, and raising a family. Now I’m craving some inner work.

Sitting in silence has its challenges. I can be painting or writing – or doing most anything. But something stirs when I think about myself or how I feel in my body.

It’s uncomfortable.

The other day, I was looking for something and I stumbled across “beautiful you” and my old journal. Divine timing.

The decision to begin again was an easy one. Can I commit to daily entries? Probably not. Will I try? Sure. The goal isn’t to make it a challenge and beat it to death.

Challenges I can do. A challenge could be a week or 100 days – I’ll complete it. It’s what happens after the challenge that concerns me. Absolutely nothing happens.

In effort to make healthier habits, I want to make this a good faith effort, to sit, be uncomfortable and let things unfold.

Here’s to finding more of myself… and beginning again.