Be Brave

I recently spent a weekend away from my family, with a friend just a few hours away. It is always a needed time to reconnect with myself and get recentered. It involved a spa day, nice dinners and sitting in a salt and selenite cave. While I was visiting with a lady, she said to me it was obvious that I needed to step out of my comfort zone in order to receive some goodness that is waiting in the wings. I almost started to giggle.

My comfort zone does not include so many of the new aspects of Ohana Oasis and even though I have a deep passion for this program there are parts of being the Executive Director that are just plain uncomfortable, the biggest one for me being fundraising.

I lay awake at nights feeling the sense of urgency that the livelihood of the program depends on me and convincing myself to be brave, to step out of my comfort zone and make magic happen. So, for this stranger that knew nothing about Ohana Oasis or the new role I play here to tell me to be brave, was mind boggling. Now I lay awake at night repeating the words, be brave over and over and deciding how to put it into action.

It reminds me of another time, shortly after Billy died when being brave felt like it was the only option. There was no room for anything else and now all these years later, it feels similar. Unchartered, scary, but no other options. I know it is not a foreign feeling to you either, so together, we will be brave.,