EWP :: 05. Allowing spaciousness

Embodied Writing Pleasure series

I'm a highly introverted person.  Many don't realize this when they first meet me because I am also incredibly social.  But a truth is I need a good amount of recovery time after socializing or being around people in general.  No matter how much I may love or care for a person, I simply can't spend 24/7 around them.  I need the quiet of solitude so I can feel at peace with myself and then able to be social again. I now know this is part of my neurospicy-ness, and am even more protective of my recovery/quiet time.

For a long time, most of my life in fact, I never asked for this solitude.  It is true there were many times in my life when I didn't actually need to ask for it because of the people I was with or the situations I was in.  It is also true there have been many times, especially after becoming a mother, when I desperately needed that space, that down time, and didn't ask for it, and so didn't get it.  

That spaciousness is really about slowing down and