In this episode I go into detail about a rock bottom-y time of my life, when I lived with my parents from age 29-32 and felt like a too-damaged-for-the-world loser. I talk about how that time cracked me open to begin healing wounds and negative beliefs I've carried about myself since childhood. Without that bottom, I don't know when I would've started doing the inner work that has made my life so much more rich and enjoyable.
I also make the connection between those early wounds and the times in my current life where I grasp for control in weird ways. Again, without having begun the journey of inner work years ago, I wouldn't know how to recognize when I'm operating from a place of fear and those acute feelings of shame that occasionally resound through my body. From the outside, my rock bottom gave people (myself included) plenty of reasons to judge me. And simultaneously, it ignited a process of profound healing and inner growth.
Resources Mentioned:
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
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"Empowered are those who remember who they are even when circumstances would tempt them to believe otherwise" - Marianne Williamson
