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After five days of no sleep raising 12 puppies, I’m over it. I started getting really grumpy and wishing for an ‘easy life’. But this morning at about 3am, I remembered that ‘this too shall pass’. I remembered how it felt being a new Mum, when you can’t even take a shower without anxiety. Or the times I wanted to cry because the sleep was so broken. And then it was over.

We all have patches of ‘hard’, where we pray for something different, yet it is often the nuggetty times in our lives that make us grow. Where we experience real reward because we’ve conquered mountains, where we create memories because we actually got through the other side of the rough patch.

What I’ve found is the more we wish to be elsewhere rather than just focussing on “how can I make now bearable”, the harder it is to build resilience to push through.

Athletes don’t give up. They fall, work out where they went wrong and try a new attitude and approach. Mums don’t give up when their baby is crying for a feed at 1am. And doggy doulas don’t abandon their dam 😂 So I picked up my bottom lip, and got on with the job, rather than whinging about helping my dog with her bakers dozen.

We all have work to do, yet I’ve found most of the struggle emotionally is the resistance to just getting on with it.

What’s in your life that you are resisting at the moment? Praying you were somewhere else? This week can you try parking the emotion and just focussing on being present to find the solution. We can all get out of the mud it just takes time and effort.

Let go of an easy life, and build Strength to endure the rough road. This too shall pass 🥰 I hope 😂

Katie x