𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 ✨
 "We are not meant for stagnation.We are meant to grow." - Melody Beattie

Scrolling through social media? 🤯
 
Travel brags, dream jobs, beachside workcations, perfect moms.
Suddenly, your heart aches for something just out of reach ✨

You put your phone down. You walk to the kitchen, open the fridge, and stand there staring at it. 🚪❄️👀
 
You're not alone. 🤝

The other day, I go for a guided stroll in the beautiful dunes around the North Sea. At some point, we reach the beach. 🌊
 
A very wide empty and completely unexploited beach. The most beautiful thing I see on this dark, rainy day. 🌧️
 
My guide sits me down on the sand and opens my hand. 🏖️✋
 
She hands me a small bag full of tiny crystals. 💎
 
She says: "these crystals are your yearnings. I want you to think of each yearning you have, and for each one, throw as many crystals as you want. 💭💖
 
If you have finished your crystals, but your yearnings are not, come to me, and I will give you more."
 
As I listen to her, my mind starts wandering and my eyes fill with water. I start crying. Like sobbing… 😢
 
I stand up, take off my gloves, and start walking.
 
I don’t even know that what I am feeling is a yearning 🤔
 
My guide tells me, "You can do anything." Today, you can have every thought and feel every yearning. You can pursue every desire that burns within you." 🔥❤️
 
While I sob scared of what will come up in my heart, I sob more for the guilt of embracing my yearnings.
 
At first, I am reluctant, if I throw the crystals this means I am allowing myself to feel free, is this allowed? Will my thoughts be dangeroeus, unconventional or uneccaptable?
 
Than, like a rewind button. I look at my hand. the thought of feeling free in my head washes all over me and…
 
With hesitation and growing convicton, I start scattering the crystals.
 
I kiss few of them before they slip of my fingers.

I hold few others close to my heart first.
I do this because in my yearnings I realise I don’t only have ambitions for growth and envision future me.

I also have yearnings for letting go and the let go crystals are the most difficult ones to slip away from my hand. 
 
The bag is empty, my guide walks further away and I run to her. I have a big smile and feel contempt.

No more crystals for me. I am good. Next time I will have new yearnings and new crystals.

She and I walk away from the beach up in the direction of the Dunes.

And we talk about our yearnings.
 
𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞? 🔗