5 Great Tips to Let Go of What’s Holding You Back
Letting go is one of the biggest lessons we are continually learning in our lives. I have found myself working on this in a huge way recently. In the last few years I have quit my profession as a theatre professor and director, moved back home to take care of my father who has Alzheimer’s, and am in the process of starting a new business. Everyday is filled with unpredictability, change, and loss. What I have come to witness is my intense need to hold on, to control, to find normalcy in a sea of uncertainty. But as they say, “what we resist, persists”. So I have begun to practice surrender. Letting go is just that-surrender. We forget how good surrender feels and how liberating it can be. Alzheimer’s I think is the greatest lesson. It is a slow, monumental, and surprisingly abrupt decay. What was true yesterday is no longer true tomorrow. Patience is required on every level. You can’t take life one day at a time, not even one hour at a time, but you must take it one moment, one second at a time. When you slow down and really face each moment something miraculous happens, your … Continue reading