Lessons from a baby lamb this week!

Her name is Tres (three) she was the third little lamb born to a very tired sheep mumma (ewe) who said two is enough I’m not feeding three!

And so the story began that Tres was abandoned by her mumma.

This sweet little baby girl has taught me so much this week that she is definitley worthy of 2 bottles of milk three times a day.

Let me tell you why!

I was asked to do this emergency petsit because of my farm experience and the original petsitter cancelled on short notice. They said the words ‘baby lamb’ and I was an instant yes!

The timing for me was not ideal (or so I thought), I am in full swing creating a project (soon to be released) and my calendar is full but to be honest I had been feeling really meh and VERY disconnected. In other words my battery was empty. I had no one to blame but myself, I had forfeited my nature time for work time and although I thought I had taught myself this lesson before, it seems I needed to go around again.

The universe dangled this petsit in front of me and I accepted. Farm life does something to my soul and I instantly become one with animals and nature. I feel so much joy watching them in their daily life for hours. Taking care of animals and nature fills my cup and reminds me of the bigger picture stuff.

So here is this sweet little one whose mother rejected her at birth, ready to take on a story of abandonment and ask the world ‘why me?’ She had all the reasons to become a victim and enter into a perfect tragedy. Watching her brother and sister who were clearly bigger and stronger then her, lovingly feed from the same mother and be accepted by the flock without question. I don’t think anyone would have denied her that story, I mean it’s quite heartbreaking and we tend to judge the mother and question how she could do this to her.

How can you reject that face!

In reality though, it’s simply survival. The mother wouldn’t have enough milk for three babies, the other two would have suffered as well and instead of two big and strong sheep being raised she would have had three, not so healthy babies and put herself in jeopardy too. If you think about it, she is quite incredible to foresee all of that with instinct.

Thankfully for little Tres she was born on a farm that would take her on and lovingly support her with surrogacy. Human surrogacy of course and instead of feeling down and rejected she simply loves her ‘different’ mother. Instead of HER feeling like ‘the outcast’ she accepts that her mother works on a different feeding schedule. Almost like she has a working mum that only feeds during work breaks, oh yeah, and her mother is a human.

What did I learn? 

It’s all about perspective, am I safe? am I being fed? Anything else is simply not important.

Living in the present day is how animals survive. They only ever look at the NOW. They don’t wonder what their future brings or look back and think about an opportunity they missed, they ONLY have the present moment and how long until feed time. AND they don’t judge themselves or others.

Most importantly – what is the story that you are holding onto? If you are still a victim in any story of your life, reframing that story does not mean that ‘the event’ didn’t happen to you. It simply means that it doesn’t have to KEEP happening to you. Empowering yourself by releasing the victim story is one of the biggest steps you can take in a healing journey. If that feels too hard and scary (which often it does) click the button below and let’s have chat to see what being empowered could look like for you.

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