Had Enough Yet?

Have you ever felt like you've had enough worry? Enough struggle? Have you experienced times when circumstances seem so overwhelming you just cry out "ENOUGH!"?  I have. 

I've said it a few times this week. My patience and tolerance sorely tested, and I've thought at times that I've just had enough. Make it stop, now!  Make him choose better now!  Make me feel better, now! 

So, what can we do to feel better now?  The goal isn't to not feel.  I will say with conviction, please honor your feelings, your circumstances, honor your overwhelm with tender loving care. Part of self-caring is to embrace the realities of life and the emotions. Of course you don't have to like it, and you don't have to pretend that you do or jump ahead to some positive spin. Loving a child when they struggle with substance use is hard, who in the world would like the hard emotions and struggle of it!?  Still, there are things we can do within the realities of the struggles that can make the hard less hard. This is a little exercise that really helps me: 

When you've had enough (or better yet, anytime and before you're in overwhelm), try this exercise to tap into the truth of ENOUGH:

1.  State and open your heart and mind to "There is ENOUGH LOVE in me and around me.  It seeks me, it finds me anywhere anytime". 

2.  Get still and quiet.  Sit or lay down.  Close your eyes.  Bring your intention again to open your mind.  Open your heart. Touch your heart. 

3.  Breathe in through your nose and bring your breath of love into your heart.  Breathe out through your mouth spreading your breath of love into your body and out to your child and/or anyone else in the world.  

4.  Bring your awareness to the love that you are connecting with in you.  It is you. It is from a Higher Love that abundantly shares itself with you.  Feel this LOVE in your body, in your heart, your spirit.  Isn't it real?  Doesn't it replace the overwhelm?  Let it! 

Love, this more spiritual love, has no limits of time and space.  It is the energy of God, limitless, unchanging, beyond time, beyond earthly matters.  And THIS, given the opportunity to be breathed into, to be felt, gives us the experience that IT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH and can transform moments of overwhelm.

Had enough?  Then get enough of this abundant love seeking you, available to you, always ready to share itself with you, in you, and from you.  And it will.  Let it be YOUR ENOUGH.  

Love wins here! 

Peace be with you,

Joanne 

PS:  As we bring our intentions to Love and Inner Peace, I invite you to take a look at more inspiration from my heart to yours. You can download these freebies here: 

How to Find Peace When You Worry - a guide with 3 powerful ways to be OK when things aren't OK. 

Letter from A Child - a message from a child struggling with substance use to a parent on what love can look like.

Love Shows Up Here - a guide to how love can guide you to show up at your best

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