Thank you for sharing this. Fear and anxiety go hand in hand and have a profound impact on chronic pain. When I learned not to fear my pain and approach it with curiosity not judgement I started to health emotionally from pain's impact. I wrote about anxiety (a sister to fear) here:
Thank you for reading this piece Mara and for your insightful wisdom.
And for sharing your link - highly recommend any readers who find it here to head on over! I’m a big fan of your work and especially loved what you had to say here
“Chronic pain can do this too, becoming the center of our journey, disrupting our life path, our relationships, and who we are. Both anxiety and pain have robbed me at times of feeling like my true self. Riley experiences the same with Anxiety.”
I am so intrigued by the journey towards our true self that the healing path takes you on and what our emotional selves (and suppression of it) has to do with root cause of chronic illness.
Aww thanks for reading 🙏🩵 it shows how very far I’ve come because I’ve learnt to do this each time it showed up in the weeks leading up to Christmas - yey !! 😍✨💫
I love this expression Amber, I have danced with fear so much in my life, but I am choosing a new partner of love the more I unravel the hurt buts. I think it’s in Gabrielle Bernstein’s teachings where when you know it’s fear rising, you consciously say “I choose love instead”. This always lets a chink of light in for me. 🙏💫❤️
Thank you for reading 🙏 I wrote this one last year and it’s amazing what I’ve let go of since ! My fear of letting others down and fear of missing out has definitely fallen away this year. Letting go naturally, Layer by layer, leaving me feeling lighter and lighter ✨
Btw I love Gaby Bernstein and her books! What a lovely affirmation “I choose love instead”, I’ll see if I can remember that one next time I feel scared.
I’ve not engaged with her work for a while, but I do have a few of her books and sometimes I’m drawn back to her for nuggets like that. It always helps me to shift things in the moment, which it sometimes all it takes to get me back on track. 🙏💫
I just love love love this blog! Dave has a t shirt it says - “it’s only a choice between love and fear” that and “love before breakfast” were his mantras when he first started working with J🐉 !
Thank you for sharing this. Fear and anxiety go hand in hand and have a profound impact on chronic pain. When I learned not to fear my pain and approach it with curiosity not judgement I started to health emotionally from pain's impact. I wrote about anxiety (a sister to fear) here:
https://chronicpainchats.substack.com/p/anxiety-is-not-just-an-emotion
Thank you for reading this piece Mara and for your insightful wisdom.
And for sharing your link - highly recommend any readers who find it here to head on over! I’m a big fan of your work and especially loved what you had to say here
“Chronic pain can do this too, becoming the center of our journey, disrupting our life path, our relationships, and who we are. Both anxiety and pain have robbed me at times of feeling like my true self. Riley experiences the same with Anxiety.”
I am so intrigued by the journey towards our true self that the healing path takes you on and what our emotional selves (and suppression of it) has to do with root cause of chronic illness.
"Anytime you show up, all I will do is show you love."
Let's love fear until it dissolves and melts into a pool at our feet.
Beautiful post x
Aww thanks for reading 🙏🩵 it shows how very far I’ve come because I’ve learnt to do this each time it showed up in the weeks leading up to Christmas - yey !! 😍✨💫
I love this expression Amber, I have danced with fear so much in my life, but I am choosing a new partner of love the more I unravel the hurt buts. I think it’s in Gabrielle Bernstein’s teachings where when you know it’s fear rising, you consciously say “I choose love instead”. This always lets a chink of light in for me. 🙏💫❤️
Thank you for reading 🙏 I wrote this one last year and it’s amazing what I’ve let go of since ! My fear of letting others down and fear of missing out has definitely fallen away this year. Letting go naturally, Layer by layer, leaving me feeling lighter and lighter ✨
Yes, I’ve just realised that Amber! It must have spoken to me this morning 🙏💫
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Btw I love Gaby Bernstein and her books! What a lovely affirmation “I choose love instead”, I’ll see if I can remember that one next time I feel scared.
I’ve not engaged with her work for a while, but I do have a few of her books and sometimes I’m drawn back to her for nuggets like that. It always helps me to shift things in the moment, which it sometimes all it takes to get me back on track. 🙏💫
Your writing just gets better and better!! There were some real pause and reflect moments reading this. ‘Everyone I meet’ 👏🏼✨
Ahhh thanks so much 🙏💙🥰😘
I just love love love this blog! Dave has a t shirt it says - “it’s only a choice between love and fear” that and “love before breakfast” were his mantras when he first started working with J🐉 !
Thank you🥰 I think that’s where I first learned it from ! Xx