Charlie (The Plant Who Looks Like Me)

Charlie in Distress

Charlie Day 2 After Some TLC

Hello my Lovelies…. Meet Charlie. He & I met just an hour ago. Our eyes met across the crowded room (of Walmart).

He was sitting on a shelf, barely holding on, with his discounted yellow sticker screaming “I’m a defect and on sale because I’ve lost my Value”.

I reached for him, then tucked him into my heart and buggy. It was True Love at first sight! ❤️

A second later, a woman saw Charlie hanging from my buggy handle and exclaimed with knowing exuberance, “You are taking that plant home to heal, aren’t you?”.

I said “Yes, because he looks like me!”.

I am sorry I’ve not been posting. I have been hiding in my cocoon. I dipped my toe in this and that, but the water was too cold.

We can all clearly see that Charlie needs watered, replanted, some nourishment and sunshine. And Time to Heal! We don’t expect Charlie to call himself a fool or berate himself because he was unable to thrive with what life clearly threw at him.

I need watered (I am back in EMDR therapy). I need replanted (I am researching and contemplating what, how & where). I need nourishment (I am filling my mind with new ways of thinking). I need sunshine (God Yes I do!), I sit outside even when it’s cold just to feel the sun on my face!

And I need a bit more time to heal. I recognize that Healing will be a lifelong journey for me in some way! But, I’m learning to acknowledge when I look like Charlie and up my self care.

I am “ok”! I have many blessings in my life and I am working on a book. But, I’m also not on the “joyfully thriving” end of my personal meter and working on slowly moving myself closer to that from the far side of the “barely surviving” other end. No shame in my game!

Much Love & Light,

~ Sage