I have spent so much of my time worrying about worse case scenarios. I’ve experienced loss and pain and unexpected life changes, but they were
I pull the mask away piece by piece. I hold and heal the broken pieces. But there are so many. Is it even possible to be whole again? I ask the child to come back. To teach me who I am. To find that inner child, that baby who lay in her parent’s arms and was delighted over simply being.
Feeling no pain sounds like it would be amazing. Pain, however, is a communicator and when we find every means possible to avoid feeling that pain, we are figuratively gouging our eyes out. When we ignore, mask or hide pain we are choosing to ignore what our body and mind is attempting to communicate with us. By avoiding addressing pain, we cannot identify and fix the root cause of the pain.