There’s gotta be something better than this

SIX am. The alarm goes. It’s still dark outside.

I know it is cold because the tip of my nose tells me so.

The reason the alarm is set this early is because it is the only time I can find where I can be uninterrupted and do the things that I want to do: writing, thinking, sitting quietly and drinking a cup of tea.

I say I am supposed to be getting up and having ‘me time’, but you could argue (as I do) that there is as much benefit in having ‘me time’ where you are sleeping in a warm bed than freezing in a stone built finca, hopping from one foot to the other on a ice cold tiled floor in the kitchen whilst waiting for the kettle to come to the boil.

It’s come to something hasn’t it when the only time in the day which you can find where there are no other demands on you is at 6am and you have to force yourself to do it.

There have been some disappointing events recently: my birthday: no balloons or clowns, just sensible stuff like vouchers for new socks, although my friends did surprise me with a meal at a local curry house the actual owners of the restaurant couldn’t even be bothered to put on the lights and make a fuss of us: have a word with yourselves please restaurateurs!

And Valentine’s Day, which passed in a haze of emails, hurried meals and stress, zero on the romance front despite having a very nice husband, we were officially ‘too busy’ to celebrate.

Something has to change, and I guess it’d down to me to get it done.

Everybody I know seems to be suffering with stress and anxiety, how are we going to cope with the economic crisis, so and so is moving back to the UK, this business is going under, that person’s had their house repossessed.

How can we take back control of our lives when it all feels as if it is running away from us?

When I start thinking about this I get the tune from ‘There’s gotta be something better than this’ from the musical Sweet Charity running through my head, check it out on You Tube, it’s very catchy.

Which is why this weekend coming I am off to spend a day with Maria Mateo who is running a course entitled ‘Awaken the Goddess within’. It’s designed to ‘ignite my womanly powers’ which I am totally up for. ‘Life is too short to stand in shadows, so step into your powers now and shine’.

Check. I have met Maria so this should be an interesting day, she certainly knows how to get you thinking and she’s a very warm and witty woman. It’s time for us chicas to get back in touch with our powerful side rather than spend all of our days being downtrodden by stress and work.

You can get more information at mmateo54@telefonica.net or visit my website and I will point you in the right direction.

Us Goddesses in the making have got to stick together you know.

www.familymattersmallorca.com