This was my Sunday afternoon field trip a few weeks ago. There’s was a farmer’s market on the boardwalk, and I decided to go at the last minute. ..I’m so glad I did 🌺
I had just written in a blog that sometimes, “knowing I could do something has the same positive effect as actually doing it” ✨️
Well, I am here to say, there’s value in actually doing the thing 🙌
I understand where I was coming from, though, because it is hard for me to get back into the book writing “zone” after these little outings, but the mental reset I get from it is well worth it.
Speaking of the book, I’m writing the chaper on what differentiates a mental health episode from a spiritual awakening. At some point, I will be addressing the mental health system’s attempt to define (and thus control) our experiences.
In creating the DSM, they have so graciously given us the lens through which to view ourselves and our experiences. It conveniently portrays us as being incomplete and in need of something from them to become whole.
The same goes for religion and any other narrative that portrays humans as needing an external authority figure to save, fix, or rescue us.
Because we’re so confused about our identity, we cling onto these outside perspectives like Rose hanging into the remnants of the Titanic for dear life.
In the absence of a connection to ourselves, we are susceptible to being told who we are.
Sovereignty is saying: “Thank you, I will take it from here. I define my own experience.”
Anatomy of an Awakening 