In just a matter of weeks, I’ve been really changing. The main theme continues to be around confronting my vulnerabilities, but I know the most valuable thing about that work is in discovering what happens as a result of the process.
Through the weeks of April, while I was creating and compiling pages for Romancing the Revolution, I found myself including pages that, well, in the end, felt quite vulnerable to share.
How fitting.
Some pages were initially intended only for my therapist to see as an exercise in writing for a (safe) audience of one, but it seemed timely and appropriate to add them given how vulnerably they presented several accompanying emergent themes— relationships, intimacy, work, writing.
It’s not necessarily vulnerability for vulnerability’s sake though. What I’m most excited about is what comes next.
Looking back at the pages I made last fall, and how I’m sharing them now, it’s clear how much I was (and still am) going through a process of growing in the direction of my own choosing.
Isn’t that a poignant way to think about freedom?
Following the path of our own will, asking questions to which we want to know the answers, and becoming the people we need and want to be.
Could there be a more powerful force for getting more free than our own will when it comes to why we want to know, what we seek to learn, and how we design our approaches for healing?
I tend to agree with the sentiment that we heal in relationship.
In many ways, the intimacy inherently required for such a process is the relationship in which I’ve invested my commitment and energy. This is, after all, part of what I think it looks like to romance the revolution within ourselves.
At least, right now, it is for me.
In addition to the page above, I referenced several other pages and recent bits of my process lately:
April Pages - Romancing the Revolution (available for download)
Register for May - Romancing the Revolution ($10 for my Buy Me a Coffee Members)
