Everything Pain Taught Me.

Pain. I think about how life would be if we didn’t have to experience pain - from disappointment, loss, generational trauma - overall experiences that just break us. I consider my life to be extremely blessed, but I don’t negate that a lot of the good and the joy I’ve cultivated have been a result of tireless efforts at remanufacturing pain. Often times we see proof that society has wired us in bad way. Instead of welcoming and sitting with our emotions, we are conditioned to think “mind over matter”, “master and mask your emotions” - we face so many outside forces convincing us that it’s healthy to just always push past how we feel. Luckily, we’ve arrived at a generation that chooses to deal with trauma in an entirely new and transparent way - instead of suppressing and letting our emotional baggage eat away at us, we are doing the work, facing ourselves and unpacking all the things bogging us down.

This is what Cataclysms. reflects.

I allowed myself this time and space to admit defeat in moments that I’ve felt broken, acknowledge the wars I was braving, and honor the resilience in rising from the ashes every time.

This part of Eventually, Everything. explores all those big feelings that can block us from having healthy exterior worlds, seeing, being and operating from our highest selves - themes like longing, envy, unrequited love, insecurity, childhood trauma and mental health. This was the most difficult, yet most pivotal and necessary portion of this book. This chapter reflects on how some moments may have felt like the end of me, but have ultimately shaped the woman I’ve grown into.

The power is in the rising, because that simply means that there is more work to be done.

Feel what you need to feel, accept what is, forgive yourself and others, and learn how to turn hurt into something beautiful.

This is everything Pain taught me -

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