Unshaming

Integrating, Shapeshifting into it, Owning It

I read this today on instagram, from @david.bedrick.

“When we shame our experience, we work to fix it, release it, erase it, “cure it,” make it go away.

When we UnShame our experience, we amplify it, unmute it, un-suppress it, un-censor it, integrate it and shape-shift into it.”

Yesssss

To me, this is an important reminder to own our own experiences, or, in other words, to claim ownership of our own stories.

Because, truly, we can’t negate or erase our experiences. What good is it then to deny them? Or try to? TO silence them?

I can’t do that with my family’s history and even my own experiences with poor coping mechanisms.

Therefore, my effort instead is on freeing it, allowing myself to integrate it and to transform me, because of it.

Owning it and working with it. To help myself, a nice byproduct of this being if I can serve as a model for others in doing the same.

A tall order, indeed, but such an important one as I continue onward in this effort towards shifting my perspective, mindset, and where I’m directing my mind and energies toward.

<3

I’ll leave with a following quote:

“The greatest achievers have found a way to believe in something good despite being traumatized and fractured on life’s battlefields. No matter what they accomplish in their lives, they are already champions. One day the world will realize that it is much harder to heal a shattered heart than excel at athletics. Go(l)d medals all around.”

~@jeffbrownsoulshaping