For those of us who are healing past wounds and working through trauma no human being on this earth should ever have to endure, you are not alone. There is an entire tribe fighting the same fight, searching for inevitable answers, breaking ingrained patterns of destruction, dying to archaic ways of living and learning how to walk again in a self-created, love-filled, honesty-based world.
Once you step onto the path of truth, you will face challenges heavy enough to take you down in one fell swoop, but they won’t. You will be handed temptation after temptation to turn back and run toward comforts of the life you once knew, but you don’t. Instead, you find a sublime strength inside you never knew existed and you use it to take the next step, and the next, and the millions of seemingly impossible steps after that. You will travel miles and miles in solitude, discovering who you are and what you want. Those who truly love you will be cheering you on and encouraging you to persevere, knowing the real treasure is the growth that takes place during a long, treacherous trek through rugged terrain and haunting fields of self-inquiry. You are never really alone, but you, yourself, must brave the crooked, unpredictable path you’ve set out to finish.
Radical change doesn’t happen overnight and deep healing takes time. There is no quick fix. There is no person, place or thing that can cure what ails you. Years of arduous work and self-examination are required to understand what you need to be at peace with yourself in this lifetime. Nobody can give you peace or answer the questions for you. You must do the work on your own, arranging the poignant puzzle pieces of your life, one by one. Gradually, you become yourself.
When you stay true to your heart and soul with an undying determination, the journey you are on does get easier, not because hardship disappears, but because you will know yourself enough to make choices that serve your highest good. Decisions are now made from a place of love and respect for yourself. You know your worth and you won’t settle for less than you deserve. You begin to weed out the imbalanced, toxic relationships in your life and cherish the people who want to love you. You find your true place in the world and finally open your eyes to the beauty that surrounds you. You attract kindred spirits, also known as your soul tribe. Most importantly, buried underneath the muck, you unearth the magic that resides within. You choose to love and be loved, because you know in your heart of hearts, that is the reason we are really here.