How To Banish Your Gorilla's Forever

So when you last left your heroine I was crushed remember?  That handsome guy that made my heart skip a beat every time I saw him was gone. For real gone. He moved to another state with barely a ‘good-bye’ and a pat on the butt like I was an old college buddy. And I was left crushed, which necessitated more wine and random dates than is generally thought acceptable.


So what's the take-away?  I’d love to offer you a bite-sized nugget of melt-in-my mouth wisdom that‘s oh-so Pinterestable.  But really, there’s only one thing to do. It’s not sexy, but it works. Stop lying to yourself and face your gorilla. Big gorilla, small gorilla, it doesn’t really matter. It’s just ugly and smelly and it’s taking up valuable space in your head.

Did I take my own advice? Yes, eventually. After the wine and the dates I don’t care to remember, ok there were a few stand-out…  Mr. Gorilla came back with a vengeance. He told me he’d been lost without me and he knew I was the Juliet to his Romeo. I told him he was the MySpace to my Facebook and I was so over it. I stopped seeing things as I so desperately wanted them to be and I faced the truth. The best part is, I was free and having more fun than I ever did with Mr. Gorilla.

So now it’s your turn. Just look at your beautiful, smart self in the mirror and say, “you can do this, it’s time”. Us girls get awfully caught up in the rose-colored ‘what if’s’ and ‘maybe’s’. We wait for the elusive to materialize just as we dreamed it would be. We compromise and hope for change in ourselves and in others. But life is lived in the small, daily moments.  Don’t wait anymore. 

You deserve to be the real you, enjoying life with people that really love you, and doing the things that really matter to you.