Listening

We’ve had a couple of experiences here that have reminded me how I want to show up and who I want to be. These kids deserve a chance to become some of hte most incredible beings I have ever experienced and it all starts with me.

Some of the examples I have been shifting into is this space that my work as an adult is not more important than them. I’ve noticed in the past when my fous was about making money and in order to make that money I needed to distract the kids. Sometimes it required spending money to entertain themselves while I worked for more. It’s a cycle that completely distracted me from the one thing I am here to do.. be an example to these kids and a space for them to grow, understand themselves, understand this world, and connect with each other. I’m putting my work as a mother before my “work” to better anything else in this world, and that starts with being the best version of me.

Another shift I am working through is being a better listener. So often I beg them to listen to me, to understand me, to hear what I have to say but I fail to listen to them. Sometimes I think what I have to say is more important but there are so many times these kids have “interupted” something I thought was really important and totally shifted the conversation to something incredible when I just allowed it to flow naturally. In that time it took me to listen to htem, I realized they were taking in how good it felt to be heard and to be a part of hte conversation. All of that gives them the understanding of how they can create that same feeling in others when they listen.

It’s these sometimes difficult shifts that show me what I am really here to do and when I make them, I am amazed at how incredible this life really is.