Life can be...
From the archives (July 2020)
Life can be kinda funny sometimes.
Like the ways it presents opportunities for our own growth. For us to explore and process another layer of our trauma, attachment wounds, social indoctrination.
Like the way it may give us exactly what we believe we want to see if we can actually handle it.
Like the way those mirrors magically appear for us to deeply look at ourselves. Our values. Our desires. Our needs.
Like the way the same life lesson appears over and over and over until we fully learn and integrate it.
You know, funny. Serendipitous. Almost like it’s destiny. Or fate. If one believes in such things.
The way when we say we want to be pushed out of our comfort zones and then approximately 100 million opportunities for that to occur just show up.
The way when we say we don’t want to be ruled by fear, but by love and then we get choice after choice presented to us where we need to decide just that :: fear or love.
How we crave emotional intimacy and community but at the same time are terrified of it, and because of this we find ourselves on a razor’s edge between staying stuck in old harmful patterns or stepping into the wild unknown and breaking them.
We have the choice every day, multiple times a day to move into love, expansion, connection, intimacy, freedom or to remain in fear, contraction, isolation, alienation, stagnancy.
It’s a risk to choose love.
It can be terrifying to do different, to disrupt harmful cycles, to do the work to co-create a world that no longer utilizes the “master’s tools”.
And.
It is the work. It is what processing trauma, growing new neural pathways, being in relationship in nurturing and nourishing ways requires. It is the way to connection. To intimacy. To the new ancient ways of being. With our Self. With others. With our world.
This piece was originally published on Insta in July 2020. It has been edited for publication here.
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