"I don't know why I decided now is a good time to write a book!" I cried to my book coaches this week. "I'm trying to start a business, I've taken on the responsibility of being the Atlanta coordinator for Healing Touch for Animals, I just got painful, inconvenient braces (invisalign), and I'm barely keeping my daily life together."
Writing a book and starting a business are two huge full time ventures. It felt daunting; overwhelming to hold them both as a priority while also continuing to be a good mom to my two boys and fur babies, not to mention holding shit together for myself. What the f was I thinking? In a calm, compassionate voice my book coach, Maggie McReynolds offered to provide insight from her outsider's view. Grateful for a potential shift in perspective I accepted. She suggested, "I imagine that the overwhelm you are feeling is from undertaking two major ventures that appear to be separate and unrelated to one another. One path has a direct correlation to a financial foundation and the other seems to be a distraction from that." YES, she gets me. "How do you see it different?" I ask. "I imagine that your hug journeys taught you a lot about the energy of touch, yes?" "oh definitely. The days I wasn't feeling it, my hugs were not as easily or readily accepted for sure. I blogged about that often during My Year of Hugs." "And, these hug journeys led to your own personal soul healing, yes?" Beginning to see where she was going with this, it elicited both a lightbulb moment and a feeling of embarrassment. How had I not seen something so obvious? I began to make connection after connection. Of course I saw how healing the energy of touch could be both physically and emotionally. It wasn't a very big stretch to see how the hug journeys would have caused me to show an immediate interest in a healing modality called Healing Touch. Marrying that together with my lifelong dream of working with animals, it was a natural shift to believe that a program called Healing Touch for Animals might help support my aggressive, fearful chihuahua, Tater Tot. I was taking what I personally experienced that created healing in my own life and used it to heal my own fur baby's traumas. This led to envisioning a future where I bring this healing modality to other people's fur babies. With this connection, I finally saw a path into my future that wove both of these enormous ventures I am undertaking together, a memoir about hug journeys healing my soul and a business healing animals (and people!) through the energetics of touch. The daunting feeling I experienced at the beginning of my call narrowed into clarity. The overwhelm relaxed into purpose. Sometimes when things come together, the impossible leads to what's possible and very quickly the world opens up in the most unimaginable ways. Stay tuned.
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AuthorMelinda Lee is a mom of two adolescent boys, a devout student of all things spiritual, a recovering perfectionist, and immensely fascinated with achieving the unachievable. Currently writing a memoir about hugging strangers. Archives
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