23 Aug What Must be Said (Message 2)
In one of the most empowering and exhilarating experiences of my life I was invited to choose a word (or a sequence of them strung together) that I felt desperate to get off my chest. Or in this case, to put on my chest.
The generous and amazing Katherine Center offered her mad body painting skills to anyone in our collective group that felt they had something to state to the Universe. A word, a phrase, prose or poetry. Whatever had to be said.
The above images is me, sharing my truth. If I could say, feel, embrace nothing else of myself in my life’s journey, this would be it. And as I quickly approach my 42nd birthday I am delighted that I can make this statement with conviction. It’s been a long time coming. Can I get an amen?
A special thanks to a very sweet and strong Superhero for capturing this shot in such a way that it could be any one of us claiming this for ourselves. Right now. As we are. Period.
I hope you hold these words close to your heart today and most of all that you believe them.
Irene
Posted at 08:17h, 23 Augustamen my friend.
ps: I remember seeing this photo and writing down these words on my journal 🙂
Lee
Posted at 08:32h, 23 AugustIndeed.
Melissa
Posted at 08:47h, 23 AugustAmen
Chris
Posted at 09:10h, 23 AugustOh yeah, AMEN sister! I tell myself these words everyday. Some days I believe it, some days I don’t and that’s okay…because deep down, we’re ALL enough. You rock, girlfriend. Truly.
lifeineden
Posted at 12:16h, 23 AugustAmen to you.
I’m still trying to embrace this for myself. I’m getting closer.
Mariah
Posted at 13:14h, 23 AugustThank you for being you and sharing who you are…
Gayle
Posted at 13:35h, 23 AugustAmen, Tracey.
camerashymomma
Posted at 13:39h, 23 Augustbeautiful.
powerful.
Jena
Posted at 14:06h, 23 AugustAmen, and back atcha.
Chookooloonks
Posted at 14:20h, 23 Augustamen!
karen
Posted at 14:51h, 23 Augustamen. here’s me, too, trying to get there. maybe someday.
gem
Posted at 15:20h, 23 Augustaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnn!
cheers,
gem
CarrieJ
Posted at 15:39h, 23 AugustAMEN!
It is a message we should all have on our hearts, at all times.
Jeanette
Posted at 16:11h, 23 AugustI am enough. I read those words not yet at the place where I can totally accept and trust in them, but with the eager hope of someone who is working on getting close.
Thank you
j.
Melissa G
Posted at 16:25h, 23 AugustAmen!
I just wanted to tell you that it is amazing how many times I have come here only to read exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks Tracey.
Amie aka MammaLoves
Posted at 16:48h, 23 AugustI wish we were all born with this tattooed on our chests.
Jennifer New
Posted at 18:39h, 23 AugustAbsolutely beautiful and brilliant. I may need to do this tonight – though in scribbly marker, nothing so lovely. But just as true!
THANKS!
Heather Plett
Posted at 19:09h, 23 AugustAnd all the people say… AMEN!
Wanda
Posted at 23:15h, 23 AugustAmen and amen.
Debi
Posted at 01:02h, 24 AugustEarlier this year, a commenter on my blog said these very words to me as I agonized over yet another something. It quickly became my daily affirmation, my mantra. I AM enough.
megan
Posted at 01:16h, 24 Augusttruly lovely. and words to remember always.
Donna
Posted at 02:46h, 24 Augusti am enough! thank you Tracey!
Michelle
Posted at 02:46h, 24 AugustAmen!
I am having a serendipitous moment I feel the need to share with you. This morning I sat and reread a few chapters in Taking Flight, only to come home and read Ali Edwards’ blog to see that she had written about an artistic gathering she had with Kelly Rae. Now I am figuring out that you were a part of that very magical group. I didn’t come to your blog, which I love BTW, by way of either of theirs (at least I don’t think I did), and I am in awe yet again of the vast smallness of this artistic blogging world.
And I am so happy that you are "enough"!
cmv
Posted at 03:02h, 24 Augustabsolutely beautiful post. thank you for sharing!
June
Posted at 10:39h, 24 AugustThank you. I needed that.
carrie
Posted at 15:00h, 24 AugustYou are indeed enough. Amen!
LilSis
Posted at 17:03h, 24 AugustAnd, yes, here’s another AMEN!!! I love this!!! That is an awesome project!
kaytee
Posted at 01:35h, 29 Augusti love this! the photo and the phrase. perfection =)
katherine center
Posted at 02:59h, 29 AugustThis photo totally makes my heart sing! xoxoxoxoxo!
Marianne
Posted at 04:41h, 01 SeptemberStunning.
Just a week before you all met in Manzanita I was sitting with Andrea in a cafe in Berkley talking about the yoga retreat I was about to go on in Big Sur and the retreat she was about to go on with you.
At my retreat we were offered the opportunity to say out loud the words that we most needed to hear. Actually – it was more terrifying than that. We were invited to SING the words that we most needed to hear. I was standing in a circle almost shaking with fear and yet crying from the need to hear these words so I summoned up all the courage that yoga has given me and stepped into the circle. I opened my mouth and sang with all my heart "I am enough". As I sang others in the group picked up the phrase and started singing it with me. I shook my whole body with the joy of finally answering my own fearful question. Am I enough? I am enough.
Over the course of the day and the remaining days on the retreat five different women came to me in quiet moments and told me that the words I sang were the exact same words that she had been saying to herself – the very words she knew she also needed to hear. We are enough.
When I saw your photo on Andrea’s blog I thought it was her and I was struck that we had both chosen the same words for ourselves – in different parts of the country but soon after sitting together in a cafe in Berkely. Now I know it was you. But really it is all of us. Thank you so much for sharing.
littlepurplecow
Posted at 12:12h, 01 SeptemberAmen, sister.
Swirly
Posted at 14:52h, 03 SeptemberAmen a million times over, written in stars across the sky.
Liz//Tipping Point Photo
Posted at 01:12h, 23 OctoberHells yeah you are enough! AAAAAAAAH-MEN! :o)
KarinaSTANTON31
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HaydenESTELLE33
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