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Feeling Sad
I am feeling so sad.
I wanted to post this because I know the sadness is connected with change. I am letting go and releasing and the next opportunities are arriving and they are ALL so exciting. Still I feel sad. I feel a tightness in my chest and I want to cry. Even Pandora is playing sad, nostalgic music. Every channel I switch to is sad. Like the Universe knows. So, I am breathing and expanding my energy field. Feeling the feelings. Being in the state of sadness and giving it a voice. All is well. Love to all you.
I posted those words on Facebook on May 30, 2013. I was about to move into a house with seven people in Venice Beach. We shared a meditation practice and most of us were coaches. After raising three daughters to adulthood and eight years after the death of my husband, I would be re-entering a world with adults. (Age range was 28–56. I was the 56 year old.)
In order to move, my youngest daughter, Hannah, had to find an apartment on her own while going to school and working. She had spent six months in New York City but now she was back in Los Angeles and I was pushing her out of the nest. So many things had happened in the eight years since my husband died. I sold our house in Maryland in 2009 after spending five months downsizing from 11 rooms to a 10 x 10 storage unit. Hannah and I packed our car with stuff and moved to…
