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Is growing without groaning a realistic thing ?

Hello my loves,

Hope your body and soul is good, currently listening to ‘‘wade in the water’‘ by The Spirituals. Its just Wednesday and it feels like the week has been moving at a pace I cannot keep up with. Before we get into the gist, thank you to everyone who left me messages on my socials saying ”welcome back”. Thank you for taking your time to read the previous post.

As a teenager, a phrase I would usually say was I’m growing without groaning and looking back now I think I was not being completely honest when I referred to that phrase. As an adult who is learning and unlearning, from my experience or should I say exposure, growing and groaning go side by side (wait, hear me out before you start groaning). With growth comes a lot of changes especially ones we might find uncomfortable, these uncomfortable habits may feel strange to our minds and bodies that despite knowing how important these changes are we still find it hard to pick ourselves up. We sigh, complain and drag ourselves sluggishly into doing these things.

If I am being honest, I am writing this in not the best state of mind as I have been feeling unmotivated to do certain tasks I set out for myself and I find myself laying in bed and wishing my to-do list was checking itself. I am putting these out for you guys to read in hopes of using you as a point of contact to reach out to myself lol.

Back to the gist, growing involves you noticing unhealthy patterns , habits and routines that we have subjected ourselves to. Unlearning these habits and learning healthy ones comes with a lot of complaints, sighs, groans even tears in some scenarios. Unhealthy habits could mean mindlessly scrolling on social media which is something I am guilty of, leaving your assignments and tasks until the last minute before doing them

Unlearning could be in form of unfollowing that page on social media that does not spark joy when you look at it, it could be just moving your body for 30 minutes everyday or even speaking to a close friend or family about how you feel, honestly sharing is caring and if you feel like you do not want to talk to someone, talk to God period! but let me tell you how to hack and body this. Are you ready ?

The trick is to KEEP SHOWING UP! show up even when you do not feel like it, show up even if it is for a minute, just keep showing up. The groans will somehow start to feel less although it might not be completely gone but it would be worth it I am not trying to be a motivational speaker as you read earlier I am also not motivated and I am literally not the person you should be looking up to lol. I am just a girl trying to share how I am living life one post at a time.

To wrap this up, growth is constant and the more receptive we are to it, the lesser the discomfort we feel. Drop your favourite quote in the comment section.

With Love,

Tracey