Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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in you instead of subconsciously re-creating the experience
so you have an outlet to release it. Healing is no longer
trying to sanitize your experience, to cleanse it until it
is made perfect.
Healing requires you to go through the full expression
of every emotion that you cut off and buried when you
decided you were no longer comfortable with it. Healing
requires you to face every ounce of darkness within you,
because just beneath what appears to be an impermeable
barrier is complete, radical, total freedom. When you are
no longer scared to feel anything, when you no longer resist
any one part of your life, something magical happens:
You find peace.
Let’s be clear: You are not going to suffer forever. This
is not going to hurt for long. But to trick yourself into
thinking that healing is getting progressively better until
you have unraveled all of your past experiences and can
return to the version of yourself you were before you got
hurt...well, that is to miss the point entirely.
We are meant to go through these periods of what some
refer to as positive disintegration. It is when we must adapt
our self-concept to become someone who can handle, if
not thrive, in the situation that we are in.
This is healthy. This is normal. This is how we are supposed
to respond.