It's Okay To Lose Your Shit
Pardon my French. As a disclaimer, there will probably be a little more "french" coming up. Not only is it okay to lose your shit (as if you need my permission to do anything), but it's healthy. The times in my life that I have found the most clarity have been immediately following a grand mal meltdown, old school temper tantrum style. Ranting, cursing, fussing, heels dug in. Usually these tantrums were the culmination of weeks if not months of unreleased frustration. Once I allowed that to move through me in a completely slobbery, snotty, uncivilized way (no one says it has to look pretty), I realized that it made the space for something else. Clarity. Calm. Peace. So there's that. And then, there's also this desire, especially among those on a spiritual path, to "be the change we want to see in the world". I truly believe in this philosophy and I truly believe it is the way to changing our world for the better. So how do we reconcile this idea o...