Did you read the title as “where ARE you” or “where are YOU”?

Did you consider, “WHERE are you”?

No matter how you read it, that might seem like a no-brainer question. Your response might be, “I am where I currently am at any given time. Duh.”

Correct ✅.

Then why did I ask?

There are many parts to a human being. Physical – body. Spiritual – spirit. Mental – mind/thoughts. Emotional – emotions. And sometimes we could include superpowers 🦾

Almost every moment of life, any or every one of these are in action. Especially for women, we can tick all the boxes. For men, they actually have a “nothing” box so they literally cannot be thinking 😉. They are also not as emotional as women but they still have emotions and handle them much differently. Not our (female) fault, God created us that way. It also does not mean men are less than.

When one of these places takes up too much space in our entire being, it tips the scale.

For example: a physical injury, birth defect, disability, or a disease impacts the body. Many of these just listed, affect the physical. That then can affect the spirit. Is God mad at me?, etc. Our minds can race with an injury, a new disability, or the news of a disease. All the “w’s and sometimes h”; what, when, where, why, and how. From current, to later today, to tomorrow, next year, and through the rest of our life. And you have to add in the effects these would have on your job, school, marriage, family, etc.

I also want to acknowledge everyone who has been affected by the loss of a loved one.

Did you see though, that the thoughts easily spiraled into affecting our emotions? Sometimes we don’t even notice it until we’re a wreck. Other times, we actually can control how our emotions are responding

In my first post “Hello World“, I talked about our emotions skyrocketing or spiraling out of control. Covid-19 allowed us a place and time to hide. Home. If you did have to go out, masking up provided a literal mask.

In the above photo, along with the scale, you also see a gavel. Judgement! 👩‍⚖️

Maybe you’ve been told, “you are your own worst critic”.

I know that phrase well. Yet, if everyone was honest with themselves, I believe a part of them is always living up to someone’s expectations, real or perceived.

Maybe you’ve even been told what the correct amount of time should be to grieve, to have an injury heal, or to adjust to a disability. Or even the lovely phrases of, “just get over it” and “it’s in the past, leave it there.”

Well, I’m not here to judge. At All! I’ve also gone through many things in life and been affected by many things.

Bouncing forward to the logo above. It took me a couple weeks of dreading and searching for a logo. You know how it feels when you’ve been searching for something and you finally find what you need. Yep! That feeling!

Immediately upon seeing the tree and roots, I was hooked. And it already had the blank space where I could easily put wording in.

I’m a very visual person and if you are too, you might already be thinking and seeing what I saw. 👀

The roots – resemble everything hidden and everything we might return to. Roots can also represent us holding on to our ground. To keep grounded.

The empty space – resembles an empty space or even a middle ground. I particularly used “finger paint” font for it’s wobbly look. You can be well grounded then have something happen to disrupt that and your world starts wobbling.

The tree – arms up high, full of life, spreading out in every direction, blooming – Alive!

Now think of that same beautiful tree while a tornado is approaching. It might lose it’s leaves and a few branches and can even become wobbly. Then the tornado hits. The tree is still there. But it might be broken off, lying on the ground or tipped over far enough that it pulled the entire root system up visible to the eye.

Where are you?

What area, of the logo picture, are you in right now? Maybe you’ve been standing tall but getting hit by storm after storm. And maybe you’ve been so beat up that all you see is darkness and you’re searching for a calm place.

The logo for “Getting My Joy Back” is all inclusive! For everyone. Doesn’t matter where you are, where you’ve been, or how many times you’ve been beat down and gotten back up or still there trying to get up.

“Getting My Joy Back” is for all walks of life!