From Depression to Expression or Are you enjoying a midlife meltdown?
“Travel Keeps Me Macro”. A friend once said this to me in a starbuck moment. More precisely, she said that travel was food to her and that she had to allow herself one international trip a year.
As Americans, we do not live in “a Europe” where other cultures are often a train ride away. We have to exert a bit more effort to “see the world” and yet the nourishment that comes from conversations and shared laughter with other peoples is beyond words, literally.
Without even knowing the resident language, I have had more “heart” encounters with people in other countries precisely because we did not have words. We had shared moments moved by music or good food or yes, a good laugh!
Homogeneity is boring and limiting. If you are feeling the squeeze of depression or the roller coaster ride of midlife changes, this coach recommends a journey.
Small life equals small dreams. Macro means big dreams, “living big”.
Edge women, women willing to bust through what is deadening their life experience, welcome difference, the eclectic (what a great word), and the unexpected, all of which travel abides.
If you are living single, it’s time to mingle. And if you are partnered, it’s time to fly solo and stretch into the new. If going international is not an option today then go find a wide open landscape in which to dwell for a time; a grand canyon or an ocean somewhere to love up on (at this time of stress for our oceans).
Make choices and decisions from the life you want to live and not from the circumstances of your life right now.
If you do not know what that life looks like then all the more reason to take a journey and dream it up in your journal as you go. You will then have the blueprint and can get busy on bringing it into form, one choice and one decision at a time. This is the way out of depression and the way to turn midlife into an adventure!
Trust me. I’m a coach and I know.
Ready for a guide and navigator to help you “get going”? I’m an email away! Morgana@MorganaMorgaine.com
