Listen With Your Heart
Today I held a retreat for a group of nine women who support one another on their journeys, offering encouragement and love along the way. They are mothers, sisters and friends to each other. Their bond is strong, their friendship real, their love quite deep.
Sharing each other’s stories, being heard sometimes is uncomfortable and scary. These women showed up with an array of emotions: some excited, some full of fear and doubt, others open for what the day had to offer. Whatever their feelings they listened to their circle, heard their sisters and without saying anything supported each other.
To really listen to someone, we don’t have to offer advice, fix their sadness, cure their frustration. Nope not at all. Just standing in someone’s presence and letting their words sink into our bones, we are giving a priceless gift.