It's groundhog day!

Today according to folklore, the groundhog saw his shadow which means that there will be six more weeks of winter. But the cold will eventually pass. It always does. Every day from now on will be a little closer to Spring and people will get out and play. Winter at times can feel lonely. 

I hate to see people feel all alone. A women posted something to that effect because her husband left her and she misses all of what they had together. She is asking for help and even posted her phone number in a very desperate way and I know if I lived in Salt Lake, I would have gone to help her out. I know where she is coming from. 

We sometimes feel alone in this life – the fact is that we are never alone – there are always others out there going through the same thing that we are, it’s just that we need more of us who are willing to be honest about it so we give permission to everyone else to feel comfortable being honest about it as well.  None of us are perfect and that is perfectly okay! Which leads me to my message today: The start of the New Year is always filled with mixed emotions.  It’s a little sad to take down the Christmas decorations and box them all up because it means the holiday have come to an end.  At the same time, it is also nice to have the house back to normal again, ready to start the New Year.  Life is like that. 

It seems that in any situation involving changes in our lives there is the blend of both sad feelings and happy feelings. And if there is anything you can be certain of it is that life is full of changes.  Life is full of endings and new beginnings. And anytime we go through changes, or endings and beginnings, there is an incredible amount of emotion we deal with as we go through it, and I believe that sometimes we get afraid to express the emotions we are coping with to anyone else around us because we are afraid that they might judge us for feeling any sadness when we have something happy also coming.  Thus, many of us hold our sadness or fears in and try to cope with them on our own. Sometimes that works but sometimes it doesn’t, and not being able to express what we feel can cause us to become isolated, lonely, and withdrawn.

I hope this Facebook friend find peace and comfort with people like her going through the same things she is going through and in this month of friendship, let’s be a good friend.

Con amor,

Vero