Are you fighting human nature?
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This is currently one of my favorite poems to contemplate. It’s teaching me so much about myself. Most of us believe nature is perfect as it is. And yet… we apply completely different rules to ourselves. Somewhere along the road of life we may have picked up the belief that “good” people don’t (fill in the blank). Feel negative emotions? We pick up judgements about what is right to feel, be, and do, Which can end up being quite complicated when what is labeled as “wrong” is part of our human nature. “Remember that a lake -James A. Pearson Mother Nature has been one of the most profound teachers of self-compassion for me. I don’t judge what I see in nature. It simply exists. A lake freezes and thaws. Storms come and go. Sometimes it’s sunny and sometimes it’s cloudy. She is destructive. She’s creative. None of it feels wrong in nature. Letting go of judgment toward our humanness is a profound step toward embodied love. It’s okay to still desire healing and growth. But real change becomes much more possible when we stop condemning ourselves for being human in the first place. Many of us fear that fully accepting ourselves will prevent growth. But underneath that fear is often the belief that shame is what motivates change. I don’t know about you, but that model has never worked very well for me. Shame feels like the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. I may have dressed it up with aspirational intentions, but I was still bound for defeat the moment my humanness inevitably returned. (And it always always returns…) Things began to change when I chose to keep my aspirations while letting go of the shame. I no longer had to choose between being human and growing. I could do both at the same time. “Remember that a lake -James A. Pearson Delightfully, brooke If you know someone who would enjoy this email, UPCOMING EVENT:
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