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Riding Through It

There's an expression that horse trainers use whenever a client's ride becomes difficult - "Keep riding through it." I've heard it at least a hundred times while riding my horse. It's a function of good horsemanship. If you give up or get off in the midst of difficulties, you might win the battle that day but lose the war in the long run. Learning to be really good at something takes persistence and time. Such it is with life; so it is with writing.

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The Inevitability of Change

5/26/2016

 
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Not long ago, a young friend of mine asked me what lesson I had learned from my lifetime of experience. I didn't even have to think about my answer. I told her that the biggest lesson I had learned was that "change" was a constant in my life. Just as I settle in with something, it changes. Such it is with clients, work, riding dressage, life in general, and particularly relationships.

Relationships are always beginning, ending or growing in some way. People pass through our lives for a variety of reasons, but, they are all here to teach us something. When we have learned the lesson each has to teach us, they move on. That premise was put for in the book, The Celestine Prophesy, and I believe it because it has been so in my life.

I'm not writing this because some earth-shattering change has recently occurred to me personally. What I am interested in, rather than beginning or ending relationships, is the way they "grow," which is in essence the way they "change."

I just read a very interesting article by Terence Stone entitled, "Growing Together, Not Apart." In it, Stone talks about how he and his wife gradually drifted away from each other over several years of marriage. They struggled, but their relationship wasn't working. They turned to counseling, and Stone bottom-lined the results in a single paragraph:

"Ultimately, what we learned was that if there was to be communication, we had to speak and listen to one another with intense presence, honesty, patience, and compassion. And above all, we realized that we had to accept that our relationship was changing, that it needed to change."

Such an important lesson. Sometimes relationships change because they need to change. If you are like me and hate change, you sometimes rail against it. But, don't. I've learned in my lifetime that when change is inevitable, you need to go with the flow and be willing to change. To paraphrase Stone, when we resist, we lose the opportunity to grow. When we resist, we create a recipe for resentment, anger, and ultimately, apathy. We will never reach perfection, but we can remember that living and loving is changing and growing. Resist all you want, but change is inevitable. Growth only happens when we choose to embrace change one moment at a time.

​Til Next Time,
​Carol


Jane Geiger
5/27/2016 10:54:10 am

Carol, this article just hit so home for me today! My husband, who was a get-up-and-go, do everything for himself (and me!) kind of guy, has had over the last 4 years a lot of major medical issues. He's pretty much ok with me helping him (though there are days he's angry that I must work so hard for him), but he is still struggling with accepting the fact that he must learn to lean on others.
For us, I tell him I said "for better or worse", it doesn't matter what happens, we'll deal with it-life means change. On June 13th, we'll celebrate 30 years of marriage, and most days I say we're still on the honeymoon!👴👵

Carol McKibben link
5/27/2016 04:15:34 pm

Jane, thank you so much for sharing this. Often times our roles reverse in a relationship, and it's important for both of you to be okay with it! Good for you!
Best, Carol

Carol McKibben link
5/27/2016 04:15:40 pm

Jane, thank you so much for sharing this. Often times our roles reverse in a relationship, and it's important for both of you to be okay with it! Good for you!
Best, Carol

Carol McKibben link
5/27/2016 04:15:47 pm

Jane, thank you so much for sharing this. Often times our roles reverse in a relationship, and it's important for both of you to be okay with it! Good for you!
Best, Carol

Carol McKibben link
5/27/2016 04:15:52 pm

Jane, thank you so much for sharing this. Often times our roles reverse in a relationship, and it's important for both of you to be okay with it! Good for you!
Best, Carol

Carol McKibben link
5/27/2016 04:15:57 pm

Jane, thank you so much for sharing this. Often times our roles reverse in a relationship, and it's important for both of you to be okay with it! Good for you!
Best, Carol

Jane Geiger
5/27/2016 10:54:59 am

Carol, this article just hit so home for me today! My husband, who was a get-up-and-go, do everything for himself (and me!) kind of guy, has had over the last 4 years a lot of major medical issues. He's pretty much ok with me helping him (though there are days he's angry that I must work so hard for him), but he is still struggling with accepting the fact that he must learn to lean on others.
For us, I tell him I said "for better or worse", it doesn't matter what happens, we'll deal with it-life means change. On June 13th, we'll celebrate 30 years of marriage, and most days I say we're still on the honeymoon!

Jane Geiger
5/27/2016 10:55:10 am

Carol, this article just hit so home for me today! My husband, who was a get-up-and-go, do everything for himself (and me!) kind of guy, has had over the last 4 years a lot of major medical issues. He's pretty much ok with me helping him (though there are days he's angry that I must work so hard for him), but he is still struggling with accepting the fact that he must learn to lean on others.
For us, I tell him I said "for better or worse", it doesn't matter what happens, we'll deal with it-life means change. On June 13th, we'll celebrate 30 years of marriage, and most days I say we're still on the honeymoon!

Jane Geiger
5/27/2016 10:55:38 am

Carol, this article just hit so home for me today! My husband, who was a get-up-and-go, do everything for himself (and me!) kind of guy, has had over the last 4 years a lot of major medical issues. He's pretty much ok with me helping him (though there are days he's angry that I must work so hard for him), but he is still struggling with accepting the fact that he must learn to lean on others.
For us, I tell him I said "for better or worse", it doesn't matter what happens, we'll deal with it-life means change. On June 13th, we'll celebrate 30 years of marriage.

Jane Geiger
5/27/2016 10:55:57 am

Carol, this article just hit so home for me today! My husband, who was a get-up-and-go, do everything for himself (and me!) kind of guy, has had over the last 4 years a lot of major medical issues. He's pretty much ok with me helping him (though there are days he's angry that I must work so hard for him), but he is still struggling with accepting the fact that he must learn to lean on others.
For us, I tell him I said "for better or worse", it doesn't matter what happens, we'll deal with it-life means change.

Jane Geiger
5/27/2016 10:56:23 am

Carol, this article just hit so home for me today! My husband, who was a get-up-and-go, do everything for himself (and me!) kind of guy, has had over the last 4 years a lot of major medical issues. He's pretty much ok with me helping him (though there are days he's angry that I must work so hard for him), but he is still struggling with accepting the fact that he must learn to lean on others.


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