Category: spiritual journey
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Building Something New
For four years, I was unable to let go of a really awful and destructive relationship. It had every possible destructive aspects to it. There was lying, cheating, abuse, addiction, betrayal, deception, infidelity, among others. What bound me to this man was that I too had all of these destructicve aspects to me, so like…
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Survivor: No Longer a Victim
During the course of my recent recovery and evolution, I have come to realize an important distinction between victim and survivor. The key distinction is that a victim recognizes the harm or traumatizing experience and does little beyond recognizing it. A survivor goes beyond recognition through action to protective onself. I have met many people…
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Facing My Dark Night
During the Dark Night of the Soul, many issues of betrayal and trust have come up for me. In order to engage in healthy relationships with others, I must overcome these fears of betrayal and trust as well as change my own decisions and behaviors. My first experience with betrayal and trust began with my…
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When the Lion Roars
Today is my birthday, and I gave myself the best present one can give oneself. I regained my power over my past, over my abuses, and by learning to protect my inner child. Here is my story. As many of my readers know, I was abused as a child by my parents, and subsequently as…
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Self Hatred
In my introspection about what I experienced in the past few years is the concept of self hatred or self loathing. This was the part of me who despised and loathed myself. As many of my readers know, I was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused as a child from the age of eight when I…
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Uncovering True Reality
There is a time during our spiritual journeys that we uncover our true reality we were unable to see before our awakening. This reality is finally finding out we are flawed, and filled with emotional pain. This does not make us unvaluable, but merely that it is the important acknowledgment of our problems to begin…
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Deeper Parts of Letting Go
As I experience my journey forward that is an ascending spiral, I learn more and more about myself, and my journey exposes to me the deeper parts of me. On my journey, I experience deeper and deeper aspects of letting go. With each layer of letting go, I feel deeper feelings I did not observe…
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The Effect of Ego on Perception
I have observed recently countless numbers of people emotionally reacting negatively to their life situations. For example, one student accused a professor of targeting his comments toward her in a class. Other people accuse and blame others for offending them and hurting their feelings. Please note that feeling offended or hurt does not involve physical or…
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Mirror, Mirror
Have you ever wondered why you attract unsuitable partners and drama-filled friends into your life? How many times have you said to yourself, why did I marry this person or date that person? Why are my friends constantly in conflicts and involved in drama in their lives? The answer is very simple. It’s called chemistry,…
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Shedding Our Skin
On our Kundalini awakening journey, we, like the serpent, shed our skin until we find our authentic selves. On this journey, we shed the layers of our smaller selves created through lifetimes of trauma, suffering, and negative experiences. On this journey, we shed the parts of us that no longer fit who we have become.…
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