Do you have a toolbox?

Do you have a toolbox? Do you know where it is? Do you know how to use the tools that are inside?

I won’t forget a time when I was sitting in my penthouse apartment overlooking the ocean in San Clemente, Ca. I had left my marriage and I was sad, lonely, and scared. I spent of time reflecting in the latter part of 2016. I felt like a child in a big, scary world, and I could scarcely understand the situation I had created for myself.

It occurred to me that I had gathered a lot of TOOLS in the previous eight years, from 2008 when I had started to do the deep work of loving myself, to the present; 2016. I had gathered books, attended lectures, gone to workshops, and collected many implements during my personal journey. There was only one problem. I was not in the practice of USING THEM. In fact, I didn’t know where my toolbox WAS. Ouch, it was a massive realization.

It has taken me YEARS to rediscover the tools, to USE them and to share them with others. It’s in the SHARING that we get to hang onto them ourselves!