Michelle Lyall

Some heartbreaks arrive loud — slammed doors, sharp words, a clean break you can name. Others move in quietly, disguised as the slow drift of someone you love toward a place you can’t follow. This is about that second kind. The kind that asks you to keep loving without losing yourself. The kind that tests the difference between hope and self-abandonment. Maybe you’ve been here too — standing on the shoreline, heart open but boundaries intact, learning to let the tide keep its rhythm with or without you. 💌 A Slow Sunday about loss, boundaries, and the preservation of self. Full piece on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/michellelyall/p/what-we-keep-while-letting-go #SlowSunday #HalfwayThere #SelfLove #Boundaries #GriefAndLove #EmotionalMaturity

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Nature is my sweet spot, my comfort and support. I used to tell my kids to go outside to play, my mom used to call me home at dark and I’d beg for 30 more minutes. My life takes a turn down a different path when being inside is chosen too long. #breathing in the nature and exhaling out the thoughts, beliefs, issues and problems. Forever grateful for nature taking hold of me at such a young age and inviting in curiosity and sanctuary. Once I was driving across country with a friend who was really going through it so we pulled over and I invited her to yell it out with the trees, she wrapped herself around the tree and it changed her life forever. #treestreestrees Where are you most comfortable and free, and where are you, like me, #gettingovermyself https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWHzP8PTlz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Rainy days bring alter moments- reflection and personal introspection. Recognitions, prompts and inspiration are found in these things but truth and knowledge come from within me as my desire to to know and experience is through life not applying at whim the outside to my inside. #honoryourtruth https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLwgzMvFA5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello new growth, springing forward. Me paying attention to the small things. As I blossom out of the last couple of years, I wonder, where have I been. Happy to be me again ♥️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6O-fUPFoT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

He’s changed so much! #bestwoof #dogoftheday #dogfriends https://www.instagram.com/p/CWMe8bYPQVV/?utm_medium=tumblr

A full day of Zoom!!! Who else is changing their life today? The Foundation has started. https://www.instagram.com/p/CV5vXyCPKkx/?utm_medium=tumblr

I used to get so frustrated knowing I had to have my own back, then I realized, so many people don’t know how to have their own back. Then this guy chose me and while he doesn’t help with the bills, he sure does comfort my soul and adds so much more to my life. What choices are you making to have your own back? #healthierchoices #haveyourownback #furrybestfriend #doglifeisgood #doglife🐶 https://www.instagram.com/p/CV18eZKr1Sx/?utm_medium=tumblr

There are so many things to love about fall. What are your favorites? #fallvibes #fallismyfavoriteseason (at Bellingham, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVoSYgDMEPH/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’ll just nap while you work #puppylife🐾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMTKPjAALLz/?igshid=16ugqqn0p9g36

#puppylove https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFZ9ZJgbrB/?igshid=r4sny9e84xco

If you know me you know I like change. So I’m super excited about the changes coming up. So excited I’m already prepared and I have weeks to go. So... two things are happening, can you guess what? #changeismyjam #beenwaitingforsolong #imgoodatit (at Bellingham, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKaSIImg_Rj/?igshid=1ppo0h1pglgqt

What ever it is that you are resisting, ask... what have I decided about this? Get free from your thoughts and fall in love with everything available to you. #thoughtlessisagift #choosemore #stopit #lovelife #whatsnext🤔 (at Bellingham, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwW_cNgu-x/?igshid=15s3dmdwiqtzo

After a full day of celebrating creating. Super grateful, super fried. Who am I and what’s next? #whatsnext #whoami #2021♥️ (at Bellingham, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJUdFCdAX4_/?igshid=uejcarliw6d6

#justdoit #justbecause #justyoudoingyou https://www.instagram.com/p/CJUcsZKg12v/?igshid=yyqsd3rhttnq

It’s the little things in life that give the most ♥️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CIW-dKtgLr4/?igshid=1svz1ktohbidc

What calms you in the storm? Comforts you when the ground shakes? What sustains you when you’re hungry, lost and scared. What brings you back to you, to an inner knowing and trust? When you know what soothes your soul, you have what you need to get through anything. #youdoyou #findingcomfort #getinspired #makeschanges #belove #beyourownsoulmate (at Bellingham, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIW-PfEgCty/?igshid=16ebyl3dikawf