5. Triggers, communication, and the uncomfortable warfare of our fears
Emotional, sentimental, and triggered is how I would describe this past week; although this might sound like a recipe for a peculiar time, it was enlightening. I have been hiding the skeletons in the closet, and to be frank, they’re starting to become bigger than what there is space for. The result? Communication seeping out of me like lava from a volcano. When we feel safe, we can explore being heard. Once we feel heard, we are given an opportunity to sit with ourselves and the sorrows with love, or to toss them in the closet with ignorance. Allow yourself the space to sit, to nurture, to untangle yourself from the overgrowth of vines that inhibit the walls you’ve built around your most “undesirable aspects”. Give them breath, show them light, and be as gentle as you would with a newly potted plant. Getting to this point hasn’t been easy, and the journey is always just beginning over and over again. I guess, that’s the point to our lives huh?
