There is a noble suffering thing that we seem to do as humans. We freak out when things start to go wrong but somehow we’re convinced that we are the only ones. First time business owners, first time menstruating teenagers, first time Moms, and first time submitting writers all have first time doubts that they feel single them out. Male or female, it feels so personal, scary, and devastating.
Somehow in this world of drive-throughs and Amazon, we’ve forgotten that we are still a group of people. That community being the family household, the neighborhood, the school, the work organization, or the clan that you choose, we are never actually alone. Unless we choose to be.
So what would it take for us to stop being so painfully unique with our problems and reach out? What do we need to know in order to –Boom- alleviate ourselves of our painful personal destinies and share them with one person who would say, “I get it, me too” ?
Ironically, I found a community online when I decided to come out of my shell and be authentic. And then I reached out and made a group within my home community of like-minded women. Being witnessed is some powerful stuff but I had to be willing to be authentic and vulnerable to enjoy the benefits.
Fear is only trying to protect you but it has us making stupid choices and one of those is that you are supposed to keep quiet about your pain. So let’s all just make a promise that we will reach out instead and find at least one person who knows what we are afraid of so that we came feel less afraid. And then find another and another and make a clan of people you can trust whenever anyone feels that again.
That is community living at it’s finest and it is how we will heal ourselves and the world. Within a place where the sum of the parts is a great source of compassion for the the individual. Amen.
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Our IG community has been so helpful and inspiring to me all these years. Interesting how we attract each other in there. So glad to have met you and the other ladies from our group, I think we follow and are followed by the same people. I miss your soul challenge, I think we need it to regroup again, sometimes I feel a little lost in there. I need to unfollow a few people that has grown apart from me to make more space for others. Love to you!
Oh Elizabeth, seeing your comment here did me such a world of good. I couldn’t agree more that we need a Soul Selfie Challenge AND a creativity month to get us all back together. Thank you for giving me the courage to consider them again. I appreciate you so much!
Love,
Shalagh