by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Mar 24, 2024 | Getting Real: The Blog
A fever came to visit last month; inconvenient, but I didn’t think much of it. Not Covid, not flu, no sickness symptoms packed in its bags. It insisted on sleeping with me, poking and jostling through the night, taking my covers and leaving me shivering, then draping...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Nov 8, 2023 | Getting Real: The Blog
Another night awake with sleep nowhere in sight. So I breathe, then get distracted. I pray, and get distracted. I practice energy exercises from my early coaching days, and get distracted again. I notice how blocked up my energy is. The headache helps with that...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Dec 7, 2020 | Getting Real: The Blog
I want to put some context around this time in my life, as I was learning to listen to horses. When I stepped out my back door each morning and walked to the paddock, Willow’s honest feedback revealed broken places in me that I’d never recognized. Not the kind of...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Nov 23, 2020 | Getting Real: The Blog
I knew there was something important for me to learn here, and didn’t have anyone to teach me, so I turned to Willow. That new starting point, the one that said she was exactly where she needs to be, and isn’t wrong for being there; the one where it’s okay for her to...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Oct 20, 2019 | Getting Real: The Blog
I’m on a houseboat. Never done this before… Jeff took us up to Smith Mountain Lake this weekend to celebrate our birthdays. The days leading up to this trip found me with a knot in my stomach. I couldn’t say why, and I also couldn’t shake it. The night before I...
