Shannii Maree – Strong Without Realising
Life, seen through a woman becoming stronger than she realised
If you are in a position to really find yourself before getting involved with another human – amazing! If however, like me, you are already married or in a long term relationship I have something to say to you. (I will use the term marriage from here on) Marriage is the ultimate training ground. And
When you feel that heaviness what do you do? Do you allow it to flow or do you tighten up like a screw? Forcing things into holes that they don’t really fit. Hoping maybe one day you will manage to forget all about it. Praying those feelings will just disappear But instead finding out they
In Cairns I had the most crazy and insane thing happen… And it’s actually quite funny and so me when I think about it. One night I had the most weird dream. Those of you following for a while will know how weird my dreams can get 😂 So much happened but the part I’m
My kids have seen me laughing. My kids have seen me breaking down. My kids have seen me in raw, primal, unbound sadness where I didn’t control any of the sounds coming out of me. And I love that. Because what doesn’t seem like very long ago I was a woman who held it all
No matter what I challenge this man with he always steps up to it. I don’t know or respect another man more deeply than I do him. I married him for a reason. Not that I knew it back then. He willingly owns every part of himself even when his ego doesn’t want him to.
Do you truly understand what it means to say I Love You? Most people confuse need and want with Love. So they don’t really understand what it means to truly love someone. To truly love someone means to allow them to be fully free and allow yourself to be fully free. How many of us
Why would people not want to human? I didn’t want to for a period of time. Get me outta here! How crazy was I! My human does some really cool things. These are statements made during ceremony a month or two ago. And we laughed and laughed and laughed. Such a beautiful reminder that we
She smiles Yet it doesn’t reach her eyes The depth of her pain Kept locked away inside She yearns to reach out And express the whirlwind within Yet her past torments her Reminders crawling on her skin Will she? Won’t she? Or will she close up and flee? Past patterns repeating Until one day she
You can stop telling me how to think Stop telling me how to feel Stop telling me I’m not doing enough Stop insisting what I see is wrong Stop agreeing with me for fear of an argument Stop only half listening And Start trying to see with eyes that aren’t yours Start responding after taking
“You feel different”. It’s a comment I receive so regularly now. I’m not really surprised, I am grateful though, when it comes from the people who have been at ground level of my development work because they have seen me warts and all. When it comes from my friends who have been in my life
Shannii Maree - Strong Without Realising 