Live Your Truth

What is your mission?

I remember lying next to my friend and lamenting the fact that my relationship was really struggling and I needed—well, everything right now. After much ado about nothing she looked over at me and gave some pretty sound advice. “Girl, just live your truth. It’s says it right here,” she smiled pointing to my shoulder.

All I could do was laugh. The answers I need are in fact inked on my body and I still seem to forget them. I got that tattoo after I had my first daughter Calais. It was a daily reminder to not lose myself in the two kids under two struggle. (That was tough) Later it became a reminder to reclaim my voice and rediscover who I was before “adulting” happened.

In those days, I was drowning and getting lost in the motherhood sauce. It seemed like every other month I was on a quest to rediscover my truth. Parenting, marriage, and adulting is not for the faint of heart. Those early years of child rearing and ASD therapies beat me down sometimes, and humbled me in ways I just wasn’t prepared for.

The things I said I didn’t really want, like the responsible stuff, was upon me over night and I often was just grinning through the motions. But the idea of living your truth is less about thinking, planning and talking things into the ground. It’s more about living.

Technically we live all the time. But for me, “Live Your Truth” is about alignment. It’s about aligning your will and your words to produce actions that leave you feeling whole. I know that’s easier said than done. Not because we are bad people who chose to lie, but, we are people that exist in the midst of pervasive distractions. It gets hard to remember what the truth actually is.

That’s actually where grace comes in. So what if the truth changes from time to time. If it resonates with you—then you are living it. And that’s the truth. (Read that last part again)