Sunset Reflections - this isn’t sexy to share.

Time to think with Joseph Michael

As I gazed at the horizon watching the sun dip below the blue of the seemingly unending ocean. There is a peace I receive from this visage. One the day before I felt so far from. It’ll doesn’t feel sexy to say but as wonderful as I feel my life is, I am not impervious to mental health challenges. I’ve experienced challenged with anxiety and sometimes panic. As grateful as I am and as good as my life is going there are times I feel the physical manifestation of this biological state. I share this to say that if you are in that state or feeling this way, I want you to be encouraged in know that you’re not alone and that it is okay. You’ll be my self doubt, the discomfort in my voice as I attempt to open up about this. This is practice for me, learning to share my voice and distilling my observations for life in a way that is palpable and able to be deployed as tactics for better living. I don’t want to experiment this fits of anxiety in the future but I acknowledge that the circumstances of my life or biology may not allow for that. With this understand I choose get to know myself more and to share that I might bounce back to gratitude more quickly every time, to presence and to peace. That is what a sunset is for me. A bridge back to peace, reminding me of the scale of it all. This wildly glorious situations we humans have found ourselves in. To be able to exists. What a gift.