I Was Drowning - PART 2
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I Was Drowning - PART 2
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate.” –Carl Jung
Last week I wrote a newsletter about surviving vs thriving. If you missed it, read that first before you dive into this one as I build on that conversation.
You can read it here.
Recently a spiritual mentor shared this quote with me:
When you are fully immersed in life, shit will happen to you.
Some of the situations you won’t have control over so the only thing you can do is:
Manage how you respond to them.
You can choose to hold on to things and let them drown you or choose to accept they were part of your journey for a reason.
Does that mean you need to forgive all those who hurt you?
No.
Not if you aren’t ready to.
But there must come a time when you recognise their role in your growth and realise it is natural to ebb and flow between empathy and anger towards them.
Those of us on the healing journey can too quickly take refuge in empathy and it can eat away at our peace—leaving us feeling betrayed.
I’ve been exploring what freedom really means to me in this chapter of life.
Inner freedom comes when you are totally at peace with who you are. That means:
You no longer feel held back by your past.
Don’t feel the pressure or expectation to be like everyone else in the present/future.
I’ve realised there is a difference between thriving in spite of my past and thriving because of my past.
Lets break it down…
“In spite of” means I thrived without being affected and there is resistance around accepting what is going on.
But by doing that I’m rejecting a part of my story and therefore a part of myself.
I’m leaving a part of my soul stuck in the past.
The part of me that was hurt.
If I do that, how can I feel fully free to show up confident and clear in my future?
“because of” means, I’m embracing what has happened to me. I’m acknowledging that everything has worked in my favour to build my character. Even if I didn’t like it at the time I’m choosing to embrace it and own my whole story.
I choose to feel whole and complete and carry all my power into my future.
I am who I am because of what happened to me, not in spite of it.
As you move through life though you will be knocked off your centre by different things that happen unexpectedly.
That’s why its important you recalibrate your energy daily by:
staying committed to your healing journey,
being mindful of who you spend your time with,
giving yourself permission to dream a beautiful future.
Step by step you’ll soon find what it means to truly thrive once you make the decision that you don’t want to drown anymore.
Remember this:
What happened in the past you can’t control but it is your responsibility to heal from it so you don’t project onto the world in an unhealthy way and bleed on those who did not hurt you.
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