This is the one I recorded then deleted three times. Then I recorded it, but decided I didn’t want to publish. I went ahead and wrote a few other posts instead, and look, it would be absolutely fine if I never shared it with the world. But then it nagged at me.
In reading The Tools by Phil Stutz (go watch the Netflix documentary, Stutz if you haven’t yet, it’s brilliant) and Barry Michels, a passage jumped out at me:
‘There is a way to find it [self belief]; it involves a profound secret. What appears to be a weak and inferior Shadow is really the conduit for a higher force- and it’s only this higher force that gives us enduring self-worth’
So, I share this today so that someone else (whether they ever share it with me or not) has the sense of “oh thank God I’m not alone. I don’t have to be perfect”
If you’re having a moment where a negative feeling isn’t passing maybe what you need is to just sit with it.
It’s ok to just sit in the feelings and have compassion for yourself that they are there, rather than trying to fix them or get rid of them.
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