A journey of lifelong transformation
A few days ago, I saw a post that so much resonated with me as I’m processing and healing all at the same time. I wanted to comment on it because, behind the words, I can see how it not only applies to women that have been through something similar, but also to most of us, really.
The post said something like “The hardest thing that I ever had to do in my life was to be a happy mom to one child and at the same time feel the sadness to let go of another”.
Maybe at first, this sentence doesn’t resonate with you because you don’t find your story in those words, but let me invite you beyond words.
When we go through something that transforms our world in a second, whatever the challenge we might be facing, we are ourselves transformed in a very deep way. In a question of a second, we stop being the person we where a second ago. That version of us simply disappears instantly. Something changes forever. And from that moment you feel lost, lost because the previous “you” isn’t there anymore and because you haven’t yet met that new version of “you” that’s being born. This in-between can be very uncomfortable. Because it’s the unknown. The unfamiliar. And the place where anything’s possible. The place where you really can become anything, because all the beliefs you had, the conditioning you were living by, the plans you had envisioned to fit it with the norm, all the
bullsh´t disappeared all at once.
That’s the most scary thing. And that’s the most beautiful thing all at the same time. In your extreme pain, suddenly you can feel limitless and powerful. You can feel a weird power building from the inside. Deciding that from that day you won’t let anybody else but you decide what your own reality is made of. Taking back power over your life like never before. And some women will tell you that it’s in these heartfelt challenging moments of their lives that they did something that we’d define as impossible, supernatural, something they’d never think they’d be capable of doing.
Out of these experiences, we can start to lose patience for what’s not real, we can lose patience for what’s seeking problems instead of solutions. We wake up with a thirst for the truth and for ourselves - Who am I? What am I capable of? What do I want to create? How do I want my life to be lived? And for most of us hopefully, from that day, will start a journey of lifelong transformation.
