Healthy Mama Magazine SPECIAL RED Edition - Feb 2015 | Page 36

SOUL FOOD

Just You Wait
By Vanessa

Teklenburg

Fill up on the every day
Anchor in here

Sit a while, this is it. This is IT

Listen, savour, create space

Clear your skies, release the dark and
the heavy. One at a time

There’s much that calls for your love and
attention. Right here

Still much room to grow before…

Make your way to joy and steep in it.
Find beauty around you. Play, rest and
do whatever makes those clock hands
whizz before your eyes

Love where you are. The mess, the

frustrations, the confusion, the overwhelm

Love your ordinary every day. Swim in it.
Feel it – all of it

Don’t push it away. Don’t wish it away.
They’re your arrows guiding you

Love your ordinary

Just you wait for the extraordinary
Vanessa Teklenburg

Vanessa Teklenburg is a mother, wife, writer and a devoted student of life. A former food and travel writer, she leads
consciousness-raising groups and writes about remembering, breaking free and connecting to our deepest, truest selves. She
lives by the ocean with her photographer husband and two magnificently spirited boys, and loves quiet, really good restaurants,
her take-everywhere deck chair on a secluded beach and dancing that makes her feel alive.
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