Not Everyone's Going to Take The Ride

Are you making choices around your health and well-being that are different from your family or peers? Have you become more aware of different realities, possibilities and options while others have no interest in that exploration? Have you even felt your ride is a bit of a lonely one, still knowing it's your ride to take?

I used to think it was my job to wake people up, especially those who routinely watched network news and had no idea censorship was alive and well. I’ve let that finally go (for the most part) and am back to being happy that I can inspire clients and audiences to live their best lives. Including enough education to support their process.

You have family members, friends and co-workers who you love and care about and they are all making the best choices they can. Not everyone wants a path to new places. They may consider that exploring the wild possibilities offered by some to be scary, and prefer to stay in a familiar, comfortable, seemingly safe place and question little or nothing. There is nothing wrong with that (unless they judge you and tell you to feel the same way as they do)! It’s a distraction all around to try to get everyone “on the same page”. That isn’t how life of growth works.

The challenges we are all facing are numerous and real. Every day more things come to light, and we are left questioning even what’s real. We all face this in our own way as we each have our own path. Resisting the divisions (social, sexual, political, economic …) that are promoted is part of our challenge.

Awareness is a choice and it’s fine that people set limits on how much awareness they’re willing to embrace. There’s no judgement in saying that. Our job is to take the ride we’re meant to take, as wild as that may feel or look to others, and accept the (calculated) risks. Knowing that our ride and our process is different than others.

I became very clear about people choosing their paths early in my nursing career. I witnessed that for some people illness became what I would call “a ticket out”. Life was hard for some patients who appeared to hit their limit on how they could cope. Surely no one would place any blame on someone who gets ill, but I knew from interactions that life was so challenging to some that death seemed a safe option. And they took it.

I know people who have been strongly discouraged from making healthcare choices they wanted to make but couldn’t stand up to the pressure and chose to conform. For me, “the ride” can even be life or death.

The level of disinformation in our culture today is astonishing, but doesn’t need to stop our journey or change our ride. I have a garden that provides respite and a dog that can be funny. I don’t despair knowing my ride is different than others. How I do my ride, live my life, inform myself as I wish, is my personal work.

Reach out to me at 541-725-5977. if I can support you in your ride, or journey, as different as that may look to others, and energizing to you. You deserve to take the ride you were meant to take.