Sometimes it feels like the trials and tribulations are never ending. No matter how many times you replay the events that led you here, you still can’t quite figure out what or where you went wrong. It leaves you wondering if all of this is just a sick twist of fate.
That feeling is only exacerbated when what was once your life keeps spiraling into an abyss of darkness. And the more you try to climb out of this pit, the deeper you fall.
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What if what you’re feeling and experiencing are answered prayers? Remember the times you begged and pleaded with the Universe/God for your life to get better?
That’s not to say that you asked for this so you have to deal with it. It means your prayers were heard, and now you’re in the reconstruction phase of your life. Your new life is currently being prepared for you- the chapters just remain to be unwritten because you get to decide what you want to create.
It also doesn’t mean that you should diminish or ignore your feelings. You need to grieve the old life, the lessons you learned to be where you’re at today. You need to mourn the version of you that compromised their values to keep others happy. And you need to be proud of yourself for never giving up on yourself, no matter how trying the struggles were.
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I know it’s difficult because it’s a destruction of our old lives- our beliefs are challenged, our patience is tested, our will feels like it’s being undermined. Our perception is altered so severely we can’t tell what’s real and what isn’t.
We’re recognizing the patterns and cycles we kept repeating are incredibly toxic. The things that used to stimulate us no longer hold our attention. Even the people we called friends and family- not everything is as it appears.
It feels like we’ve been stripped bare, with nothing left but our own raw vulnerability. And that’s a scary place to be in, not that our lives are in danger. But for the fact that we have to come face to face with our own deception and self-rejection– the ways we betray ourselves to keep the peace or to be liked.
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No questions. No doubts. No worrying. Just unwavering faith that it’s just a matter of time for our external reality to catch up to our internal reality.
It’s in this unraveling, that we finally get to be more for ourselves. Which means we have to stop showing up as the version of ourselves that doesn’t think we’re worthy of more. We need to step up our game. And a huge part of that is having faith that what we want is ours.
It doesn’t matter if the life you want isn’t even a glimmer of what you’re currently living. It will be when you continue being in alignment with your desires.
Sometimes it’s when we have nothing that we find everything.
Faith is alignment. It’s easy to have faith when everything is exactly the way we want it. It’s another thing when we feel trapped in a tunnel that we can’t find our way out of. But that’s where you’re truly born- in the destruction of what once was so you can have everything your soul yearns for.
That life you want- it’s yours. You just need to believe in yourself enough to take a chance on yourself and keep faith in your heart.
You’re not done yet. Not even close. You’re only just beginning to come into the realization of your potential. So now isn’t the time to give up, not when you’re just getting started.
I’ll see you soon…in the meantime, love yourself so much that even a Hallmark Christmas movie would be jealous.
