Ground yourself as you help to Ground others

It almost sounds a bit cliché doesn't it? The Grounded Gal blogging about the need to ground yourself. If you're following me on this journey, you'll find it will likely be a common occurrence. It's the reason this blog was created in the first place. Honestly I needed an outlet. Somewhere to get my thoughts and feelings out, and to share perspective.

Writing fuels my creativity and a passion I'm learning I discredited for too long. I connect to a higher self when I write and I let the words that come to me flow onto paper. I used to handwrite it all out, simply close my book and set it next to my bed when I was done. But then I realized that served no one but myself. As I thought about the idea of this blog I thought maybe someone could benefit from what I had to say.

Maybe someone could benefit me by providing advice on whatever I was going through.

Or maybe at the end of the day no one would really care, but at least I would be fueling my passion.

It was a no lose discussion in my mind.

So became the Grounded Gal.

Then here I sat last week just having "one of those weeks" where it felt like everything was going wrong. The to-do list was piling up consistently to the amount of meetings I was in, and time to do it all frankly just wasn't working. My head felt in a whirlwind for a few too many days and I lost sight of my need for grounding.

In the midst of my chaos I was in the midst of multiple deep conversations with people in my tribe. Conversations with those in my family and some of my closest friends had my emotions tuned in deep. Every conversation had me engrossed in their situation, trying to help and share perspective; to share as much love and light as I could to help them through their situation.

The words for them came right to me. Like God had literally placed me in their conversation to help provide a bit of light and guidance. Yet here I sat in a funk trying to process where I had gone wrong in my chaos.

Then God blessed me with the perspective I needed from my husband. He simply stated "I get it, but don't forget to be grateful for all the good things you have."

Smack dab right in my face sharing the perspective that I needed. He was right. And it was never that I wasn't grateful, it's just so dang easy to lose sight sometimes.

So I spent some time on my gratitude’s; something I try to do on a daily basis and I had totally let slip away from me throughout the course of the week. And when I was done I stopped to reflect back on my week of some tough days. My reflection made it clear. The reality is that's all it was, a tough couple of days.

Nothing bad had really happened.

Sure there were some frustrating moments. But that's what they were -- moments in time.

So my friends, take a lesson from my madness and remember to always help to ground others, but never forget when doing so to ground yourself in the journey as well.

God bless.