https://padlet.com/WakingUpFree/wakingupishardtodo en-us 2019-05-13 19:17:31 UTC 2024-08-11 06:58:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/373583166/75f82b680ae357c470407d27afcfa356/WUF_Banner_2.jpg WakingUpFree https://padlet.com/WakingUpFree/wakingupishardtodo/wish/359644308 My whole life I used self-protection skills as a way to live in the world. It was just normal, it's almost everyone's normal. Every interaction I have with another human is an opportunity to be hurt emotionally or physically, so I have the choice to size the situation up, armor up or open up. 

I have only ever wanted great things for myself and for my family and I believe other people do too. The journey into truth started a few years ago as I was very unconscious of what I was thinking and believing at the time. It was a coming apart of the seams of my world and a revelation that things were not at all what I knew them to be; it started a spiral of self-destruction but I had plenty of kindling to burn my life to the ground. 

I have studied a variety of authors, religious leaders, philosophers and this is the amazing part...I got to form my own opinion on what is real and what isn't and when I get stuck I replaced judgments with questions. 

Truth can be sticky if I have not done my internal work, the truth can be hard but also act as a guide pointing me to where the pain is so I can unearth even greater the truths and set it free.

This is a great unknowing and it comes in waves but it is also how I now get to respond to my life and the world. I am no longer struggling to exist but rather have learned how to truly live. 


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