Revisiting Ease: What it Means to Lean into Perfectly Imperfect

“Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to wake up in the morning and think, ‘No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.’ It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”
― Brené Brown

It’s the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend – this day always feels like extra space and time to me, it’s after the hustle and bustle of the big feast (which was oh so good this year albeit quieter with only one of our three sons at home) and then the energy of Black Friday. It’s a bit like gaining an hour at the beginning of Daylight Savings time. I can give myself permission to sit back, do a puzzle, read a book, play a game. It doesn’t have to be go, go, go on this day. It feels like ease to me and coincidentally this is my word of the year (see my January blog post). I was reminded of this word, ease, during my morning yoga class last week when the teacher brought up effort and ease. It got me thinking of how I’ve done with living into ease this year. I have to say it hasn’t come easily. 😀 In the balance of effort and ease, I’ve spent much more time and energy on effort than I have ease, there has not been much balance at all. There’s always one more thing on the to-do list, one more email to write, one more item to pick up at the store, one more meal to cook, one more problem to solve. ​

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