Lisa Overman » joy http://lisaoverman.com A Site of Inspiration, Healing, Laughter and Support for Our Spirit and Our Life. Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:57:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 Walk The Walk http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/2009/04/02/walk-the-walk/ http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/2009/04/02/walk-the-walk/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:24:36 +0000 ahealedheart http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/?p=469
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Beach Photo Credit: Lisa Overman

Life is joy, love, challenge, choices and change. We all want to feel loved, cherished and desired. It’s part of the nature of our soul to need love. We want to feel the warmth, closeness and the delight of loving and being loved. Relationships are a gift and a challenge to walk each day. No matter what relationship you choose you will find moments that transform you with the depth of their love, the fear, the frustration and the sheer joy and commitment of loving another soul. This is no easy walk, it’s a baptism of fire. No matter who we are, who we love, who we feel drawn to in our life the fact remains we are changed and challenged by commitment in the best and worst ways. For certain life will become about WE rather than me. It will feel at times like a series of compromises, which challenge your very being. We all think we are flexible until we’re faced with the needs and desires of another soul. Then we come to realize maybe we aren’t as easy and flexible as we imagined.

Passion comes from the depth of our being. Passion moves us, makes our soul dance and sing. We live our lives passionately: wanting to do good with our life and our love. We believe passionately and sometimes our challenges fill us with the conviction of peace and the reality of compromise. No relationship will be easy or painless, but the depth of our love and passion will make it worthwhile and make us willing to walk the walk with hope, love and joy. These after all are the gifts of life and love.

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My dolphin experience with Echelle

My dolphin experience with Echelle

There is so much to be said for reaching my forties. I really no longer give a fig about what people think of my life or life choices. I am by far the happiest I have ever been with myself and my life. I have healed and I’m now capable of inspiring others to heal. I’m free of the pain I spent many years feeling and have moved beyond the suffocating grief I lived through.

Being forty six gives me a certain freedom, I choose how I spend my time, energy and life. I strive each day to create good through my writing and my website, but I also strive to feel joy and contentment in my every day experiences. I love what I do, I love creating a healing space for people to enjoy, read and be inspired by. This is my life’s work and that feels more amazing than anything else; to have reached my forties and know exactly what I’m meant to be doing. It is the most divine feeling. I feel inspired, motivated and thrilled to be doing this work. I know my experiences and stories can guide others through their own journey of healing. That is a gift, to reach the other side of pain and loss and feel I can use it for something useful, something deeply uplifting. I feel grateful.

I believe when we reach our forties we view our life differently, we refocus on what we really want in our life, rather than what we think we are supposed to have in our life. We make time for ourselves, for those we love and we treasure every day, knowing that life can be short and we better play part of every day. Time doesn’t move backwards, it moves forward and as I explore this year of being forty six sometimes it flies by and I wonder if I’ve treasured each moments enough.

Life is good, I hope as you read this you will consider your own life. Are you feeling inspired? What can you do in your own life to add joy and contentment? Are you doing something you love doing? If not find a few hours a week and make it all yours. Life is full of choices. Make yours all they can be. Make them uplifting. Namaste

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