Everyday Superheroes

We are the ones who struggle.

We are the ones who love so many things in so many directions: multi-disciplinary, multi-passionate, multi-faceted, multi-hyphenate. We are the ones who can’t settle on ‘the one thing’, because, what about everything else?

We are diverse and deep, impassioned and compassionate. We feel things so deeply that we are forever breaking open with the pain, joy, sorrow and beauty of the world. We are the oversensitive, the fragile, the vulnerable; we know all too well what it is to be buffeted from every direction and battered by our own intensity.

We are sick of the standard expectations of ‘normal’. We are sick of being put in boxes that don’t fit. We are sick of definitions that don't work for us​,​ written by the powers that be to keep the wayward in line, or by ourselves in an attempt to make ourselves fit.​ ​We are sick of the story that says we are broken, the story that says we cannot thrive because we are too much this or not enough that. Yet we know somehow, that these are only stories and are not, in fact, true. We are not most people and are still beautifully, perfectly, whole.

We want to live wholeheartedly in service to the world. To be as big as we are, as beautiful as we are and as flawed, and as crippled, and as creative as we are too. To be all of it, to accept all of it, to love all of it. To be authentically ourselves in all ways; not compartmentalised, not loved conditionally - this bit good that bit not so much. We want to find this for ourselves, in ourselves; to build a way of life that allows all of it, to be OK with all of it, because this is our gift to the world.

We pray for the courage to stand forward, to step up. To be strong enough to cope, stable enough to keep standing and centred enough to keep going even when our confidence is crumbling. We pray to be able to ride the waves instead of drowning, to take a breath rather than suffocating, to stand up one more time again and again and again.

Somewhere, we have seen a bigger, clearer picture where we already have the strength to be all that we are. We have glimpsed that it is not by changing the world on the outside, that will make the difference, but by changing the way we understand the world, from the inside out, that will give us our wings​.

If we could know that we are not our feelings, that well-being is as steady and as accessible as the ground beneath our feet; if we could know this, like the flowers know rain, we could change the world.

So let us know this.

We will become all that we are and open a door into a new world. We will make the impossible possible. We will be superheroes.