01/13/2024
Connection is what gives people purpose and meaning in their lives. For this to happen, we long to be seen. To feel as if we are seen. We fear we aren’t worthy of connection and then it is no wonder why shame and fear continue to trump over feelings of love and connection.
Our hearts long for connection.
Humans are windows to the soul. Our connections and relationships bring out the best parts of ourselves that we can’t bring out on our own- but that also means equally the worst comes out sometimes too.
Sometimes our thoughts feel like they take over and consume us. The accuracy in how that statement was written- they simply feel like they are. And while we know it won’t feel like that forever, the feeling can be so intense at times that it is that truth in that moment to be the only one to exist.
Enter shame. This is where the s word comes into play. Where the emotional traumas, recollections, imprints, and memories of our past begin to create the “I’m not ____ enough” narrative.
It is the shame that then drives us away from ourselves, and then further from those we desire and long for to be closest to us. But if this is the same and the narrative that we tell ourselves, how on Earth could we possibly let another in to love this now labeled unloveable and not enough self? If we don’t, who will?
Exit stage left shame.
This is the year of breakthroughs, transformation, a metamorphosis 🐛
You don’t just wake up and become the butterfly. But even on your worst days, you know that you ARE the butterfly 🦋
