Slow Down with Jana: Recent Episodes
Slow Down with Jana
If you've found yourself delaying for days, years or decades, begin now. Reset your intentions and learn from what it means to be out of action. The important part is that you actually start. Don't throw judgement on top of all the time that has already gone by. That will just make life worse.
Courage is not about being completely fearless. It's about what we decide to do in the presence of fear. Courage can't exist without it. It needs it. It's the opposite side of the coin. In fact, you can look at the fear you've been feeling and see that the courage that has always been within you is right around the corner.
Solid and healthy boundaries are about communicating from a place of wisdom and establishing lines in the sand that protect everyone. Most of all, you have to make sure you are looking after yourself. If you aren't your most prominent advocate, who will be?
The hardest part of the journey is the first step - finally making that decision - and everything begins to snap into place when you do. Come back to what is happening at this moment. Open yourself to possibilities instead of shutting down in fear. And don't forget to breathe
Sometimes, you get stuck, you get bruised, you get devastated, and sometimes you just need to take time and stay there for a moment until you're ready again until you have mustered up enough courage and regained yourself.
You need to see the ugliest parts and the pretty ones—they make life meaningful.