Conversing about Patience

I stumbled across The Thrive Centre for Human Development, and have enjoyed a couple of their videos discussing Patience - one of those skills required when we are slowing down to RESTORE.

PATIENCE is something that I have been digging into a bit recently - and you can find out more about some of that thinking in the piece called MOTHER - PATIENCE. I consider it to be a highly underrated quality we develop as a mother; something that can actually be hugely effortful and hard to maintain.

In fact, the word patience stems from the concept of endurance: “the quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering” (Quora.com). As mothers, we learn it during pregnancy, during birth, and discover new layers of its quality at every point in our parenting journey.

In terms of patience for our ability to RESTORE, I think there is something about the need for patience for ourselves. As mothers, we often demonstrate and extend huge patience to others, but sometimes find it hard to find even a modicum for ourselves. We give ourselves a hard time, feel guilt, and often underestimate what we actually do, whilst overestimating what needs to be done.

Let’s use our superpowers of patience - that gift we give others - to slow ourselves right down during this month of restoration, so we have the space and time we need.

Let’s extend that same gift of patience to ourselves and see what exists beneath the fast, the busy, the relentlessly ON.

https://thethrivecenter.org/resources/patience/

ps there is an unfortunate story about endless vomiting. It’s not my favourite bit, and she’s not my favourite contributor - so if you can get over the content of the story, I felt the message was still valid! Sorry in advance.