It is true that all things Life — including Life with Dogs — has taken a big hit in the past year. How could it be any different?
As they say, “Nevertheless, she persisted.”
But when your Little Soldiers are still recovering from a wickedly awful sneak attack, you learn to be intentional about what you ask them to do.
Recovery happens but only if we give it space and time — if you broke your leg, for example, it would be dumb to try to run a marathon on it.
No — you create conditions to let the body heal your leg. And it does. Like slow and painful magic — but it WILL happen.
Pozy knows all about that right now as she recovers from her surgery.
Nobody would think it would be smart if I was asking her to jump or run for a couple of miles. No — we understand what is needed for bones to heal.
We — the collective we — are not as kind about emotional/psychological healing. I know this from my work in grief.
If someone went over a cliff in a car and was shattered — nobody would expect anything from them for months as their body recovered.
When it is a soul that is shattered? It’s different — and it shouldn’t be.
Because I am being careful and intentional, I am doing pretty darn well. I will continue to be careful and intentional, however, because I know that having your Life go over a cliff requires time and space in order for the magical transformation that is healing to fully happen.
This video — like Life with Dogs — has lessons beyond training the dumbbell hold.
Note how nicely Claire holds the dumbbell — that has been accomplished almost exclusively in these brief micro-training sessions. You can do a lot in small doses.
Note that Sparkle is not perfect — at all. So what? Sometimes you have to just let stuff go.
Finally, note that Capella is just getting started — trust baby steps. They work.
