Like a smoored fire the embers of your self-expression are still there waiting to be rekindled into flame so that you regain your visibility.
Hello to you listening in Forres, Scotland!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.
The Scots word “smooring” is an old practice of subduing a fire with ash or peat to keep the embers warm overnight until they’re rekindled in the morning. Maybe like me something or someone smoored your self-expression. Perhaps you were told that you were a handful, a free spirit, loudly curious, or just plain too much.
After a time you conformed to what they wanted. You smoored your self-expression. You stopped freely sharing your feelings, ideas, curiosity, and thoughts. As your self-expression was subdued, you became less visible.
And yet, like a smoored fire the embers of your self-expression are still there waiting to be rekindled into flame so that you regain your visibility.
4 Practical Tips: I have four tried and true tips for you:
1. Nurture self-awareness so that you become visible to yourself.
2. Awaken natural talents to reignite the fire of your self-expression.
3. Seek out the people and places where you belong, where you and your self-expression are welcome
4. Practice saying what you mean and meaning what you say as the courageous act of a warrior. The question is no longer: Who will let me?; the question is: “Who do they think they are to try and stop me?
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Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts
Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music
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