Living Now

I woke up this morning thinking how fortunate I am to be able to do what I do.  I am so grateful for the opportunities that become available to me everyday when I am open to my experience here and now.  I am traditionally a worrier.  I can ruminate and stew about anything!  It is a struggle for me to stay focused on the present moment but I find it gets easier with practice.  The more I pull myself back to my breath and orient myself to what is here now, the easier it becomes to accept what is and let go of the worry.  Try it today yourself.  Become comfortable and begin to orient yourself to what is around you.  Notice what draws your attention.  Begin to focus on your breathing and relax.  As thoughts arise, as they will, let them pass neither following them nor pushing them away.  Return to your breath.  Repeat as needed.

Starting Anew

I was asked by a colleague why “at your age” when most people are thinking about decreasing work and eventually retiring, am I starting a new private practice in mental health services?  It is an interesting question.

Although I have never left the mental health field, I have not provided counseling services for some time.  When it became apparent I needed to reinvent myself, it was clear to me creating a new life really meant going back to where I belong.  With that image in mind, I began to assess where I am in my life now and what I would need to do to make it happen.

I assessed what I would need to do to make my dreams come true.  A dream does not just appear in the future!  I began to explore all of the options available to me and I investigated the impact of each on my life.  I invested daily in developing my plans.  I identified what steps would have to be taken to complete each segment of that plan.  When I felt overwhelmed, sad, or angry, I stopped and re-evaluated what is.  I explored the feeling and inquired into the experience.   I made adjustments in my direction as needed.

I am not there yet and I don’t know that I ever will reach the end of my path because it is ever-changing, however, I am confident in the process.  We all grow in our own way and in our own time.  I look forward now to meeting others on this creative path to self-knowledge.

–Barb Remmers, MS, LIMHP

Amy Whitaker on Art Thinking: Where Creativity and Commerce Intersect — Discover

“If you are making a work of art in any area of life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B. You are inventing point B.”

via Amy Whitaker on Art Thinking: Where Creativity and Commerce Intersect — Discover

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