“Dandelions Bloom At Midnight” was the safe phrase my son and I used when and if plans changed — for example, someone else were to pick him up or meet him at the bus after school, or if he was staying the night at a friend’s house and was homesick but couldn’t talk about it, if he said that phrase, I knew it was still safe. Other and any oddball situations that come up when raising kids, that was the phrase to use to let me know things with him were safe and allright.
“Dandelions Bloom At Midnight” also has another meaning, a metaphorical one.
As human beings, we have a wealth of resiliency and an inner impulse and even compulsion to keep growing, keep trying, keeping options open, taking a new step, making it a new day.
Some people, alot of people I know, have bloomed in the best possible ways when going through and coming through adversity.
We can’t see it ourselves when we are in the thick of it.
Remember the safe phrase, when you are in the darkest most vulnerable overwhelming fearful hour.
Dandelions Bloom At Midnight.
You can find some resiliency, be imaginative and visualize something better than what you are experiencing now.
You can come through your darkest hour and shine so brightly.
Remember, many plants and flowers do ineed bloom at midnight, some need the dark to germinate and take root.
Some need the dark to flower.
Our mental health is an ecosystem, one of resiliency and creativity.
How can you blossom in your hour of struggle?
Start by planting a seed and imagining the flower.
Take care,
Heidi Hansen
Recovery Lifestyle Magazine 