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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 609725" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>That imagery is beautiful, Recovering! And it is true ~ in a storm, all the parts of us that were constructed to enable us to continue to function through repeated traumatic events shatter and fall apart. We are left, then, with who we really are. It feels pretty miserable, pretty scary, to be naked like that. But as we survive it, we learn not only that we are somehow stronger than we knew ourselves to be, but that we must always have been stronger than we had been taught to believe we were. With those first questions and realizations, ALL the old, negative teachings are called into question. We learn our own truths, and we learn too, that the only truth that matters is the one we have explored and validated for ourselves.</p><p></p><p>And the world becomes a very different place.</p><p></p><p>In a way, where I seem to be heading now is a lot like what Brene Brown has to say about vulnerability. Risk and uncertainty become desirable to us, because that is where we find true things. We learn to sit with the discomfort of not knowing. And in that vulnerability, a whole different world, filled with light and color and motion comes to be.</p><p></p><p>I feel so happy that you posted this for me, Recovering.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 609725, member: 1721"] That imagery is beautiful, Recovering! And it is true ~ in a storm, all the parts of us that were constructed to enable us to continue to function through repeated traumatic events shatter and fall apart. We are left, then, with who we really are. It feels pretty miserable, pretty scary, to be naked like that. But as we survive it, we learn not only that we are somehow stronger than we knew ourselves to be, but that we must always have been stronger than we had been taught to believe we were. With those first questions and realizations, ALL the old, negative teachings are called into question. We learn our own truths, and we learn too, that the only truth that matters is the one we have explored and validated for ourselves. And the world becomes a very different place. In a way, where I seem to be heading now is a lot like what Brene Brown has to say about vulnerability. Risk and uncertainty become desirable to us, because that is where we find true things. We learn to sit with the discomfort of not knowing. And in that vulnerability, a whole different world, filled with light and color and motion comes to be. I feel so happy that you posted this for me, Recovering. :O) [/QUOTE]
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