After all that inner work, and all your powerful accomplishments in the world, where are you still afraid of alienating others or being abandoned if you go for what you really want?
Even though I had accomplished so much, I almost didn’t even KNOW who I was any more…. Or what way of being in the world would truly fit for me. I had made so many compromises that I had given up on that deep connection with myself and others I had always craved.
Even though I was finally a mother and was well known in my field, I didn’t know how to stop the anxiety. How to heal my painful marriage.
And I felt like time was running out.
Then, when I was in the pit of desperation, LIFE SLAMMED ITS FOOT ON THE BRAKE.
The parts of me that doubted the affirmations– that didn’t think I was “safe” or “prosperous,” the part of me that couldn’t believe “all is well,” and truly felt things should be different, finally staged a rebellion–which looked like high anxiety, chronic illness, food addiction, and loss of my health and marriage. After years of addressing that, something amazing happened…