It's a curious paradox.
—a chance to re-evaluate our priorities, strip away the unimportant, and focus on what really matters. Life is an adventure packed full of experiences and lessons. A slow but sure process of becoming truly ourselves. I think about the movement between good days and bad as two rooms with an interconnecting door. There’s the"good room," where we like to be as much as possible. This is where we are when life goes well and we are managing; When we feel capable and connected to others.
In the good room, it’s tempting to imagine that all’s well, and that we are safe and will never come to any harm, but this can lead to us denying parts of ourselves or repressing negative emotions. When we’re in the struggle room, we feel overwhelmed and our problems can feel insurmountable. This can overspill from what we’re currently facing into other areas. Remember:
Trauma shatters our fundamental assumptions about life and makes us question everything we thought we knew.
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