When Things Aren't Holding
Change
will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We
are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we
seek.-Barack Obama
Past trauma need not rule my present and future
This
disease is traumatizing. It is shocking. It takes away my sense of
normal. It makes people I love unpredictable and scary. It undermines my
trust and faith in an orderly and predictable world and in my primary
relationships and even in myself. Sometimes the earth beneath me can
feel unsolid, shaky, and unreliable. And when I feel like this, I want
to hold on tighter, to control, to fix and pin things down so I won't
have to feel this way anymore. Today I will accept these feelings as
natural, and I will breathe through them and give them space to move
through me, knowing that there is a new kind of solidity growing daily
within me. The power of presence is enough.
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