Celebrating Our Cycles
Dear friend, leader, one-of-a-kind soul,
You are like no other.
Do you believe that is who you are?
What are you celebrating right here and now? I would love to celebrate who you are -as is.
After ten years of spiraling up into thriving, I could not have more joy! Much of this has to do with the fact that a decade ago, I almost died racing my bike, thinking that I was going to podium. Yet, that was not the case. I found out the hard way that striving to win was killing my peace and joy—and almost took my life.
💥CRASH💥
Fighting to live. Unaware.
Placed in a coma for a month.
I woke up realizing that trying to be the best was a life lived on autopilot its own coma state. Waking up from my medically induced coma also woke me up to the fact that my life was more than winning.
My auto-pilot coma state consisted of:
Rinse and repeat. Thinking the same thoughts. Feeling the same feelings. Having the same patterns of behavior. I was on the spin cycle with the same outcome. Rung out. Never letting myself “off the hook”.
I will never forget to celebrate the opportunity to live a purpose-filled life. I am honored to have discovered my reason for being …to awaken those who are at the top and are racing to be enough to then discover that their calling and "whole yes" in life is not in the doing. This time of year is such a time of gratitude because this near-death experience gave me the opportunity to take my life back. As I review my life over this last decade I realize how quickly my life could be taken away and I can confidently say that I’ve lived this last decade on purpose. Without regret.
In the last 10 years and since my big "accident," I have grown through the unexpected.
Uterine cancer, a broken foot, a hip fractured in 3 places, an ankle turned around to break in 3 areas, and finally a broken elbow and pelvis. Months of recovery for each incident followed. My growth was not about getting stuck in what happened to me, but the power to decide how I would respond it.
And, I’ll be real, I felt the anger, sadness, and fear as I could not believe that "this” was happening again.
The difference over this last decade that brought me back to joy was and is having the tools to be human, feel all my feelings, and move beyond the stories that used to cause me to suffer. We are all human and it is so normal to want to fight what is.
This fighting, (defense) is at the core of all of us when we are unaware of how to fully embrace ourselves when life hands us the "unwanted and unforeseen." To see ourselves as more than what is happening to us empowers us to choose the cycle we’ll live in. The agitator cycle or the gentle cycle.
It is clear to me, that my life was spared to wake you up to yours.
No matter where you are on your journey, if you do not have more peace and joy, you are suffering. There is another way! I have learned the way out of my deeply embedded patterns. I know that life has and will keep sending me ways to practice and come home to the power of myself.
Love, joy, and peace to you in abundance.
Reach out to me, if you want less stress and more internal joy.
You are always enough for the answers you seek.
Joy. Peace. Love.
Xxoo,
Debra
“My Genius is Seeing Yours.”