Signs My Mind & Body Are Asking For Radical Change

Unexpected 'permission slips' to stop forcing things, and live the life I want.

Earlier this week, I talked about the pivotal moment I took as my permission slip to live my actual life.

I was confronted with a choice: to be brave, and take the path untread. Or risk losing my life altogether.

I wasn’t fighting for the life I had before, as a bookish outcast in a small town. I was fighting for the person I wanted to be, the woman I knew I was deep down, despite the roles and expectations everyone had decided for me.

The moment of diagnosis was my catalyst. My cracking open. My chance to embrace challenge as a portal to a better and more authentic way of being as my true self.

In my life, one brave act begets another. After chemo, I left that little town for the big city, and never looked back.

You’ve had your own permission-slip moments. Did you take them?

Did you look through the crack for light peaking through from the other side? Did you step through them like doorways into the life you’ve been keeping from yourself, the person you know yourself to truly be? Did you choose yourself, despite that it might disappoint others?

Too often we wait for things to hit their rock bottom before we agree to and accept change. We wait for them to completely explode before we leave, get help, or admit the truth. Like:

The job that got too unbearable to stay in
Symptoms in your body that finally took you to the ground
The relationship that became too toxic, and dangerous to stay in