#fightsongfriday

Friday Fight Song

Don’t mistake my warmth for weakness Don’t bite the hand that feeds or you’ll or you’ll never eat

You can’t clip my wings, can’t wilt my flowers Stole my time, but I’ll make up the hours ‘Cause I’m a goddess and you know it Some respect, you better show it I’m done with you siphoning my power

Sometimes people come into our lives at just the wrong moment, they require something we do not have spare or after a time, just wear us down. It’s not always malicious or deliberate but it can drain us of power that we desperately need to just keep going.

#FightSongFriday - Run by Delta Rae

today’s song is one that I put on when I need to feel like I’m the heroine in a Brave-style movie at that moment where you suddenly crack under the pressure of all the expectations you’ve put on yourself and you just go - “I gotta go”, dig in, and for a moment you escape and feel so powerful... -Rose x

I want to run, To feel again To be no one, to love under the stars And all my life I've been burdened by the dreams I've had Now I want to run

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This week’s fight song was submitted by @awhitenoise - thank you! We love it!

And I’m going faster, you’re going backwards

You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone

I’m going faster, I know what I’m after

I should have been after it all along

–Rachael Yamagata, Faster

This #FridayFightSong came up on my iPod during my drive home from work today, and I ended up listening to it three times back to back. Such a great tune for leaving behind all the toxic people, jobs, and everything else that’s poisoning your life.

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#FightSongFriday is back!

Today it’s Rose’s pick, Superwoman by Rebecca Ferguson

I first heard this song driving around the M25 in heavy traffic and driving rain on a Friday afternoon. It had been one of “those days” and I’d just hung up on a work call whilst biting back tears of frustration. As the call cleared the radio came on and this song was midway through the first verse. 

The chorus hit, and I gave up fighting it and just let myself cry, in that moment I needed permission to be just  regular struggling human and this song was it. So I’m adding it to the playlist. 

I think it ties in really well to honesty. Sometimes we have to admit to ourselves (and to others) that we don’t have everything under control, and if you need something to belt out to give you the confidence to do that, this song is a great pick!

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Mod Julie’s pick: “Hand in My Pocket” by Alanis Morissette

They say music and songs can mentally transport you back in time to where you heard them before. For me, this song is in of THOSE songs.

When I married my first husband at age 23 in 1995 and we moved (for a short time) from Tennessee to Arizona, I was terrified. I had never lived beyond a twenty mile radius of my home town and it was one of the few times in my life I have experienced what I now know are panic attacks.

During this time, I had to learn to suck it up and this song became my anthem. I realized my journey as an adult had begun and it was going to have its rough spots. But no matter what comes, I had no choice but to be just fine.

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This week’s fight song is from Mod Rose ( @crossedbeams​)

It has been a week. This is the week after I walked away from five years invested in a career path I can no longer survive. This is the week I realised how bruised it had left me. This is the week I cried over everything, tried to stop and couldn’t.

This is the song I blasted at myself on repeat to make it home from the meeting that left me feeling so small I was surprised my feet still reached the pedals of my car.

Hearts break and hell's a place that everyone knows So don't be so hard on yourself, no 

Let's go back to simplicity, I feel like I've been missing me Was not who I'm supposed to be, I felt this darkness over me We all get there eventually, I never knew where I belonged But I was right and you were wrong, Been telling myself all along

It’s gonna get better. I know it.

Rose X

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