Self Led

01/09/2025

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The Labyrinth of Life
Today, if you’re confronting an issue for the ten thousandth time, or feeling that your life is going nowhere, or panicking over how little you’ve achieved, stop and breathe. You’re not falling behind on some linear race through time. You’re walking the labyrinth of life. Yes, you’re meant to move forward, but almost never in a straight line. Yes, there’s an element of achievement, of beginning and ending, but those are minor compared to the element of being here now. In the moments you stop trying to conquer the labyrinth of life and simply inhabit it, you’ll realize it was designed to hold you safe as you explore what feels dangerous. You’ll see that you’re exactly where you’re meant to be, meandering along a crooked path that is meant to lead you not onward, but inward.
~ Martha Beck
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Rivers in the Ocean

24/08/2025

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12/08/2025

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~The Spiritual Abode

23/06/2025

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Always remember, trauma likes to pull a veil over our eyes.

Only letting us see a biased truth at times.

Often, this "truth" is but an echo of words that we've heard from others by our very two ears.

Why though?

Why do we take in the words of others, especially ones that hurt so much?

Because that, exactly that.

That those words hurt.

And in its funny own way, by making us believe that this is the "truth" of our being.

Then since it's already the truth we've accepted, it lessens the extent to which we can be hurt by others again

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But what is trauma actually? When you stare at it right in its face?

Yes, it's the myriad of difficult, very difficult experiences that happened to us.

And experiences that didn't happen too, like being cared for or being understood or being loved too.

To say it's painful is a severe understatement.

But in saying that, your pain is real.

Don't let anyone tell you this feeling isn't real.

Because what is trauma that still holds onto this pain after all this time.

Forced to believe one side of the truth when a part of you sees many other truths.

Like the hurt, the loneliness, the emptiness you feel?

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Two truths can exist at the same time.

And yes, whether or not you have a "privileged" life - this privilege supposedly being a home, parent/s, family, food, water, an education or so on.

That doesn't mean you didn't experience pain...

Be it loss at one time or another.

Emotional neglect or abuse at other times.

Growing up with a sense of profound loneliness.

Or even feeling empty and/or abandoned.

Two truths can exist at the same time.

Go to that part of you who feels the pain.

For that's the part of you longing all this time to heal.

Heal :)

Take care,
Hernping

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20/06/2025

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“I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world."
Beth Clark

Stanley Spencer - Neighbours, 1936.