
06/09/2025
I used to feel like I was a fraud...
Because I could do yoga and sing mantra and feel all peaceful one minute and the next eat meat, feel anger or rage, or watch tv...
I’ve come to really accept that there’s no way we can be so ‘one sided’. We’ve all seen how that can turn out in spiritual/religious communities anyway...
You can’t deny and suppress your humanity. Polarity / duality is part of the foundation of this existence. Love and hate. Peace and anger. Fear and courage.
They simply all coexist - both within us individually and within society as a whole.
Thanks to Internal family systems (IFS/parts theory) I’ve really been able to learn how to accept and embrace ALL PARTS OF ME.
I don’t feel like something is wrong with me when I express my humanity in the whole rainbow spectrum of potential we have 🌈
How does this feel? Amazing. I can just feel what I feel - both pleasure and pain, without judgement or shame.
It’s the liberation the Buddhists talk about, but for me, using IFS really helped me embody and experience this on a deeper level. Buddhism is a great philosophy, but IFS and somatic work bring it home 🏡