When COURAGE counts the most!

When does Courage count the most? — When speaking your truth is at odds with your passion!

I’m a natural born Empath with intense Passion for serving others in my capacity as professional coach, mentor and confidant.

However, lately, Empathy and Passion have found themselves at odds in the way I speak my truth and express my mind and soul.

You see, my sense of Empathy takes me to feel what others are feeling, and in many instances, I feel their pain, as profound as it may be, I can feel it.  Often I become overwhelmed with compassion and sorrow for what they’re going through.  I do the mourning for them.

And then, in comes Passion.  As a 6 year-old, my mother used to say that I  always did things with deep intensity, enthusiasm and joy…. never half-way or wishy-washy.  Yes, it is the fire of my passion that burns wild to this day and I embrace it with love and dignity as it is who I am.

So what happens when Passion and Empathy meet simultaneously with the same intensity?  It can cause an explosion of deep compassion and sorrow combined with a deep sense of anger and righteous indignation.  Which after learning about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, it was exactly what happened.  Neither my head nor my heart could take it anymore.  This is a statement about the spirit, and not about politics, though the latter, is a trigger.

For a while now, I’ve been caught between anger and empathy. And they both hold me back as the combination is completely nonsensical. 

I say nothing when in anger as I know it will not lead to where I want to go, and I say nothing when feeling empathetic, as compassion combined with anger, leaves me thinking a lot, feeling a lot, and saying not a hell of a lot. I have not been able to know exactly what I needed to do in order to say what I needed to say while setting an example for others of love, peace and harmony. What a balancing act, and frankly, I got sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. Of shedding tears and feeling my heart torn to pieces over the injustices I am witnessing.

I was a child when the communist Cuban revolution took place and I saw the horrors of what one crazed leader, high on power and self-serving narcissism, hell-bent on division, chaos and confusion, did to destroy a country.

We all need to take a stand as to what’s right for us individually and collectively, and as leaders, we also need to set an example of how to lead with strengths and love, rather than weakness and hate.

One of my many passions is to make sure you don’t suffer alone, you don’t cry alone, you are not shedding tears in silence as I know, through my own personal experiences, that no one should ever go through that in solitude and aloness. I am here to relieve your stress, hear you out, comfort you and guide you. Bluntly put: I AM HERE.

I choose love and understanding to lead the way because a country united by common strengths, values and passion, cannot fall.

Lead with your strengths and stand in your power so that you too, can make a difference as you build your legacy of how you want to be remembered. Let’s create a vision for a better world….And if you are at odds with your truth, I am here to help.

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