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Join the Semicolon Movement
I bet you have already seen the semicolon tattoo. It is popping up in a lot of places right now. Do you really know what the meaning behind this beautiful movement is?
I am so personally connected to this movement. As many of you know, my baby brother committed suicide about three years ago. He was brilliant, funny, tall and handsome with pale green eyes. He had a heart of gold. When he died we were all shocked. We felt lost. I spiraled myself into a pretty deep funk. My sense of self felt lost.
Thankfully I had the support of a wonderful husband and two kids that forced me to function and be a good mommy to them. The funk slowly faded, but there were moments when the pain of his loss flooded in again and seemed to sweep me away from my light.
It was about a year later that I first saw the girl with the semicolon tattoo. I am not the biggest fan of body art, but to me, the symbolism of the semicolon was so brilliant. A reminder that it is OK to take a pause. To have a bad day, to think of it as a moment of rest before you continue on.
The idea that it is OK to have a moment is powerful. We all faultier from time to time. Some moments are harder than others. My moment felt like an eternity. Three years later those moments still come, the tears still fall and I feel myself slipping away from the person I want to be.
What the semicolon project brought to me, was a sense of calm in those moments of storms. I didn’t want to get a tattoo, but I wanted to have something. Something to remind me that there is a struggle to life that can be so beautiful. For all of the ups there are downs.
Take pause. If you don’t have it all together today, tomorrow is a new start.
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