What it means to be who we are meant to be
Breaking personal, generational, and ancestral cycles of harm
Becoming who we want to be, who our soul calls us to be, who we are meant to be, is uncomfortable at the least, and downright painful, heartbreaking, and ego shattering at the most.
It means leaving behind old harmful habits, old harmful relationships, old harmful cycles that no longer (and perhaps never did) serve us.
It means stepping into the void of the unknown, without a map, without a guide, and learning to exist in ways no one ever modeled for us.
It means breaking generational patterns of abuse, neglect, and isolation. Breaking ancestral curses of rupture, separation, and individualism.
It means going against the grain of the status quo, of our families of origin, and even of chosen family who once helped us survive but now are keeping us stuck and from thriving.
It means grief. A metric fuckton of grief.
It means forming, nurturing, growing new (and sometimes old) relationships that at first feel strange and yet so right. Strange because they are a way of relating we’ve never experienced before. So right because our soul knows this is where and how we are supposed to be.
It means moving through fear. It means trusting the unknown. It means walking away from what we know and is comfortable, yet isn’t serving us.
It means ineffable connections. Visceral knowing. Nourishing interdependence. Emotional intimacy beyond our wildest dreams. All while revealing more and more of our Core Self and rooting into our autonomy.
It means leaving the home we were given and creating and coming home to the one were meant to have.
It means dislodging everything we were told is “right,” “normal,” that we are “supposed to” and “should” want to do and be, and actually doing and becoming our soul’s purpose.
It means letting go of what we think it all means and seeing what it truly means.
It means
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