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Happy Tuesday
Last week I watched a live band fire up beautiful harmonies and fiddle in my hood to a full crowd of Millennials and 30 somethings.
Close to the end of a night, a couple in their 70s walked up and began dancing.
I couldn’t take my eyes off of them, nor could anyone else.
It wasn’t just because they were the coolest looking couple I’ve seen. (He was in his finest (for Yukon) with a button up yellow corduroy shirt, grey felt hat and a handy utility knife onto his leather belt (you never know). She donned a funky hair cut, knitted shawl and dangly earrings.)
Rather, it was their deep presence to the music and to one another. They didn’t have an ounce of shyness or hesitancy about being the only ones up grooving.
As they danced cheek to cheek to the 1,2,3 rhythm, their fingers entangled and smiles lit up the room.
I closed my eyes, taking it all in- deeply grateful for this intimate moment that cut through all my surficial fears about the US primaries and the global virus.
I told her as much in the bathroom, a few minutes later.
She said “oh, I just love dancing”.
“He never used to” she confided. “But we just kept practicing in our living room and then one day the dancing became his own.”
Seeing the swooning in my eye (thinking about my own partner), she said “Don’t give up”, with a wink and a squeeze of my arm.
Don’t give up- on living room dancing, breaking all the rules when your 70, and permitting ourselves to embrace our experience and who we are/becoming.
Give ourselves permission to be fully free, even when we want to hold back, is one of the most powerful things we can do to experience inner freedom.
Over on the blog today, I explore this capacity by diving into the limitations of our Inner Critic, and a critical practice that can liberate it.
So if you’re feeling stuck, unable to move through the next level of growth or expression- you might need to give yourself some permission. Granting yourself to simply BE where you’re at can liberate your stories, anxieties, preoccupations, and fixations.
So like the couple dancing in front of the Millennial crowd, making their own freedom, come on over and tell me about your relationship to permission? What does does granting it (to yourself) open up for you?
For me, well, I might just ask that man in the grey felt hat to dance next time 🙂
Xo
Jennifer
PS. On March 15th, I’ll be at Launch your Vision One Day Intensive, exploring “mindset” with an amazing group of social entrepreneurs at Whitehorse’s very own NorthLight Innovation. We’ll bust a few myths together and dive into what helps YOU accelerate influence on what’s most important. Come and join us by signing up here!
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