We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds – the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
-Carolyn Myss
When our minds dominate so much of our lives, we tend to feel internally fragmented.
The nature of the mind is to seek understanding and safety.
Splitting life into good/ bad and right/ wrong is a very natural process because it helps us to survive. But splitting life into polarities also creates tremendous suffering within us.
Why?
Because we grow up learning that some parts of us are “good” while other parts of us are “bad.” We then attach to the “good” parts of ourselves and repress or deny the “bad” parts of ourselves.
When we start to perceive ourselves in a fragmented way, we feel flawed, lacking, and incomplete. We start to feel insecure, anxious, lonely, depressed, and in some extreme cases suicidal.
Our true essence has been diluted. ⠀⠀
We greatly crave to love and embrace ourselves, but how can we fully accept who we are when we hate some parts of ourselves and love other parts?
When we integrate, we unite different parts of ourselves that may have been missing.
It is in this process we can begin the journey toward true healing.
In order to repair, heal, and grow on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level, it’s important to visit the darker parts of ourselves, often called our Shadow.
The Shadow isn’t just the wounded part of us, but it is also the path towards a more authentic and fulfilling life, a path to becoming whole again.
It may feel frightening at first, but it’s the most important step if you want to experience deep, lasting healing.
But you don’t have to do it alone.
I can offer loving guidance as you peel back the layers to all parts of yourself so you may reconnect to the truth of who you are.
When the timing feels divine, please know that I am always here for you.