There is no around, over, under or about-face with the big things in life. The emotions, the challenges, the things that come knocking at our door again and again. They ask us, necessitate us to be with them. Fully, in strength and surrender and awe.
I said this often to myself when I was managing a team and in my big corporate girlie era. Rumblings, misses, confusion, mistakes: Only way is through. Let’s go ask about this, invite this out to be with us and move through it together. And then I had to anchor in it as a mantra of bravery when I stepped back from that era of overdrive and peered, feebly and fearfully at the chronic pain that kept calling to me. All it wanted; all it needed, was for me to face it. To let the emotions and need for rest, honesty and release to course through me and release. The only way is through.
They say emotions only last 90 seconds, and if we just open our arms to it, lie down and welcome release, they will pass. And they do. What a wonder of the human experience to feel such layered, differing emotions; to be able to witness and experience their flow. What they may not say is that may be just one wave in the current of it. And another may come. And that’s OK.
The only way is through, and I’m with you.