Level 45

I rate birthdays highly. I mean, come on, let’s be real here … the day we are given the opportunity to be born, to come kicking and screaming into life, is a pretty great day indeed!

A day for celebration, for joy, for new beginnings, and for a new story to be dropped on the timeline.

Yours!

Mine!

I know there are so many people in the world who say they don’t like celebrating their birthdays, and I find that immensely sad. What happened over the course of your life that you began to dislike celebrating your own life, your own awesomeness, your own miracle of being? Who knocked the desire to be in joy out of you and why … and how?

Who told you that you don’t deserve to take up space in the world ESPECIALLY on your birth day?

Who made you feel like you are not worthy of making a fuss over?

Or when did you come to that jaded conclusion yourself?

I would like to take this day, my day, to invite you to come back to yourself, to the wonder that is you, to the celebration you are meant to have each year to remember the day you got to live, the day you got to BE … and begin to celebrate it again. Whole-ly …

A few years ago I began celebrating my entire birthday month … because I’m extra like that and also, why not! Every day of July is a day to be excited that … on the 21st … I became.

Sidenote … did you know that if I had been born on the 20th, which I was apparently due on, I would have been named Storm … because there was a storm that day. So cool!

Now, this July hasn’t been a great one, not gonna lie, a pretty shit birthday month to be fair, but that’s just me having a mini pity party for one up until today, today though … well … a birthday is what you make of it … and this morning I got coffee and birthday cake in bed from my son, I got a gorgeous present, I have a new book to read, and I get to do whatever I want for the day. Is all that not a reason to celebrate? As if my just being here wasn’t enough of a celebration!!!

I am immensely grateful for my life exactly as it is, and I am even more grateful for everything that is coming.

I am so grateful to have a fabulous son who is an awesome person, and it is an incredible honour to watch him live, learn, and grow daily.

I am so grateful for my comfy bed, all the light that floods my room every day, the fan blowing beside me because … its fucking hot … the sound of the birds outside, and all the white butterflies in my front garden jungle because it hasn’t been cut in 4 weeks so all the wildlife is back in situ!

I am grateful to be alive, to be able to train, and to be finally making a comeback that is without a doubt, the greatest apology to myself I could ever make.

I am grateful for the beautiful birthday wishes I am getting already, for the lovely people I have in my life.

I am grateful for all my ideas, for everything I follow through on, for what’s to come, for what comes through me that’s meant to be made real, for everything I have gone through and the lessons I have learned because of it all.

Here’s to another year, way more fun, some travel, success in ways I am excited to see, and whatever else the big G has in store for me.

Happy July 21st … this is my LEVEL 45 and I will be playing this level exceptionally well.

Xoxo

Ciara