When your Momma calls after giving you the space you needed to grow, you answer. Or at least I did. You can call it crazy talk, but I heard her. Loud and clear. She took the chance as I burried my iPhone into silence for 5 days, and She instructed me. I’m not kidding you. After two days of writing like a mad woman, I got the instructions.
I wasn’t sure I’d last in silence for 5 days. In fact, I wasn’t even sure I’d come out of there sane at all. Well, the jury is still out on that one, but one thing is true, I heard Divine Mother, especially as I offered my Yes to do her work. What was surprising was how much I enjoyed silence. I ended up staying at a hotel, and I was so relieved not to have to talk to anyone; I would just pass my little note saying “I’m in silence. Can I have 2 eggs over easy, hash browns, no bread, no meat, OJ… to go. Thank you. 
” Delicious. I loved silence and silence loved me.
Coming home was not easy, my friends. Not easy at all. My ears could not believe how much noise one man and two small children make, or how fast emails pile after 5 days, or the overwhelm of phone calls to return, and most importantly how confusing it is to integrate the experience and bring it to my life.
Well, it’s now been 5 days, and I am settled. I’m not in bliss every moment, but I am firm in the knowing that it is all in how I react to the life I have. So, I’m chanting a little bit, to bring my mind to a place of peace. Not surprisingly, big changes are in motion- some by me, some by members in my family, and some by my big Momma within.
I’d like to offer this gift of silence to other women. And so part of saying this Yes is bringing my Coaching and Spiritual Midwifery dormant selves to the surface again. It’s like riding a bicycle, I’m sure, especially since I really have not stopped providing this service, I just call it being a friend these days.
Hugs,
Asha