There is brilliance in dissociation.
There is brilliance in stuckness.
There is brilliance in judgement.
There is brilliance in your symptoms.
There is brilliance in codependency.
There is brilliance in hyper-independence.
There is brilliance in depression.
There is brilliance in people pleasing.
There is brilliance in avoidance.
There is brilliance in chronic illness.
There is brilliance in autoimmune disease.
There is brilliance in migraines.
There is brilliance in masking.
There is brilliance in overworking, overgiving, overcompensating.
There is brilliance in anxiety.
There is brilliance in insomnia.
There is brilliance in compulsions.
There is brilliance in over/under functioning.
There is brilliance in defense mechanisms.

There is brilliance in every single strategy you employed in order to survive.

There is wisdom in all the brilliant, elegant ways that we have learned to adapt.

There is brilliance in all your parts, managers, defense mechanisms, coping styles, avoidances, anxieties, and ways that we all adapt to a world that may have been filled with fragmentation, disorganization, avoidance, disconnection, confusion, too much responsibility, too little attention, conflict, abuse, war, disbelief, trauma... as little ones or as adults.

When we can recognize (make the unconscious conscious) and celebrate our adaptive mechanisms, we can also unblend from identifying with these survival strategies as who we are.

We aren’t our survival strategies—
the things we had to do or think or say or look like or identify as or avoid or engage in or distract with in order to survive.

You are YOU.

I want us all to know that we can be us now.

So our essences (instead of our management strategies and coping mechanisms) can start being in charge of the more beautiful world that our hearts and souls know is possible.

I want to live in a world where we connect heart to heart and soul to soul, instead of defense to defense, manager to manager.

Join me?