Recently I was talking to a friend who has been all caught up in her emotions and we got to talking about how difficult these personal journeys can actually be. I’m always asked what my one main piece of advice is for people and I’ve probably said it in a previous post, but I always answer the same thing, “you MUST get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
A personal growth and healing journey is a lot of things. It’s messy, chaotic, raw, painful, emotional, depleting, ugly, beautiful, uplifting, enlightening, and lightening all wrapped up into one. It’s not easy, but then again if it was, everyone would be doing it.
One of the biggest takeaways from my chat with my friend was that she has shaken things up so much by digging deep and going into her past traumas to seek resolution and closure. Now is the time to let things marinate and settle.
We used the analogy of a snow globe. When you go into your childhood, generational, relationship, whatever trauma you are working on and you start to get rip the band aids off and open those wounds, you are shaking the shit out of that snow globe. A vortex is created and all the little pieces are swirling around. It feels uncomfortable and overwhelming. That is the time to exercise your patience and resilience and allow everything to settle.
Bright & Bare Sassed 