Hero’ Journey

A Sentence, Not A Chapter

Setbacks can be very difficult…

Scratch that….

Setbacks are very difficult.

You’re ticking along nicely. The past is the past. Over. You’re winning, making progress, moving forward. Then, suddenly, from one day to the next you’re not. You’re back to feeling like you used to, which is not how you want to be feeling. And it hurts – it hurts emotionally, psychologically, spiritually. In a moment of real darkness things can feel pointless again, and really unfair and undeserved, especially if you’ve been doing everything right. It feels like you’re at square one – again – as if somehow you looped back to the same mountains of challenge and pain you once put everything you had to overcome… and now you have to climb them again. Again.

Am I right back where I started?

No. No, you are not.

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Hang On

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Hero' Journey, Life

There’s a part of every healing journey never talked about. It’s not glamorous, it can’t be sold and it goes against the grain of our culture of doing. It’s the part of the journey that requires nothing but being. It’s full of grace and power. It’s the part that actually gets you through any challenge including the seemingly impossible, multi-year ordeal that was my chronic fatigue survival and recovery. And it’s a part every single one of us, you included, has within us.

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YOU Are A Hero

Health, Hero' Journey

You are a hero. Yup, you. No need to look around, I’m not talking to anyone else. I’m talking to you. So, let me say it again – you are a hero.

Now, it’s not quite that literal. It actually is, but it also isn’t. 🙂

It actually depends on you.
It depends on whether you will answer the call.

Will you?

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Hero' Journey

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