Finding Our Way

Whether animal or human, we each face certain challenges with walking a few legs of our journey solo. There are more similarities than differences. Recently in preparing for a trip alone to visit family, I was faced with anxious thoughts, energy and worry about the unknowns. Mind you, this is a trip I have done before on my own prior to 2020. Yet after two years of traveling with others in one way or another, it felt like the first time and much more emotionally charged. It had been eight years since I stayed at a hotel alone and I would find myself doing so again.

I was reminded once again by a pet friend that one often feels safer and more at ease when there are family or friends near to offer love, compassion, support and understanding. Sometimes we just need to be able to touch another being to relax fully and catch moments of sound sleep. Just like another friend I visited with recently, the feline tonight had lost a sibling earlier this year. Finding the comfort in the unknown when his mother is away is still a newer experience. In both cases, they needed more firsthand connection and love.

We too often find we need love, support and understanding from our self and others as we walk along our path to revise aspects of our life, create new experiences in business, or taking new adventures. The key I have learned is checking in with myself as to where the emotions are surfacing from and to really sit in that space of uncomfortableness to move beyond it. Once the journey has begun much of the anxiousness drops away replaced with a level of peace.

Finding our way feels like a very, unique situation and yet, at some point we all will have to step along this path.