I Don’t Want to Live a Small Life

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I was talking with someone the other day and she made the comment, “I wish I had your energy!” This was meant as a compliment, but the reality for me is that this really isn’t about energy. It is all about passion. It’s about choosing to not live a small life. Nelson Mandela said, “There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” It doesn’t matter what the passion is. Passion is passion. Some days it is a blessing; some days it is a curse, and it can be exhausting! But make no mistake…it is never dull! When the intention of my passion is to clear up the confusion perpetuated by the media, (with 10 year old recycled bad information and with the intent to further the confusion and untruths with the big pharma agenda in the forefront,) and to help women learn of the truth about hormone balance and their options, it can be a very big deal.  The reality for me is that I don’t want to live a small life. So what DOES my heart most want? To show women they matter; to validate their story and their journey; but, most of all, to continue to be vulnerable with an open heart space.  Being vulnerable requires an open heart space. To be vulnerable requires courage. One can not be both vulnerable and comfortable. You have to choose. And, as Brene Brown says after studying vulnerability for 10 years, “Vulnerability means daring greatly.” To be vulnerable means having your hand on the arena door and being willing to step inside getting bullied and beaten up. It takes great courage to be open and vulnerable and willing to step into the arena and get beaten up every single day…..by pharmaceutical companies, current standard of care, and by people who disagree.
I recently had the honor of being selected as an Athena Award Finalist by Cincy Magazine.
The Athena Awards recognize women who have “achieved professional excellence, devoted time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in the community, and have assisted women in realizing their leadership potential.” Our Athena Awards event was held recently for all 11 finalists. In getting to know these other Athena Finalists, I realized that we all have several character traits in common, and one of the most important is that we all live with the intention to choose to not live small lives. We walk every day with the intention of being vulnerable, having an open heart space and putting all we have out there in the arena, with the willingness and the courage to get bullied and beaten up.
Make no mistake! You get from this life what you have the courage to ask for. I do not want to get to the end of my life, regretting that I never had the courage to be vulnerable and to dare greatly. For me, at the end of the day, it is the knowing that I have had the courage to take a risk making a change for the better, by being willing to risk being vulnerable,  to positively impact people’s lives, that makes this all worth it.

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