The Risk of Relief. 

Friends,

At the beginning of engaging your story, when your body is rife with traumatic emotions - like shame, fear, shock, dread, futility, powerlessness and despair...

The entire point is to be with the stories that are embedded in your body like shrapnel, to gently and ever so softly, invite those wounds to be seen, held and mended.

To learn how to feel supported, to be nurtured through the pain, to begin to release the energy of those emotions and to find relief.

This relief will settle you.

But, it will also awaken you.

In other words, it will disrupt you.

Last year I interviewed my friend Adam (listen here), and in this episode, I said this:

It is impossible to find relief in an inaccurate narrative. 

Why?

Because the body knows.

It knows when something smells rotten.

There is a difference between holding the objection of the body and its writhing knowing of an improperly named story... and the disruption and relief of an accurately named story.

An inaccurate narrative feels like death unto death.

...like an inescapable turmoil leading to a core and fundamental felt-sense of "badness."

Another way to put it is... it leads to despair.

The relief and disruption brought by accurate naming...leads to life and therefore is fundamentally risky. 

To live is to risk.

This means you'll feel both fear and excitement. 

Sometimes at the same time.

What if I live?
What if I love?
What if I try something entirely new?
What if I change my mind?
What if I go for it?

A true story changes everything. 

Relief is risky. 

So, I'll leave you with two things I know:

There isn't one person I've coached who didn't come into our first session with a dash of hope and a whole flask of dread.

And 

Every person I've sat with who truly engaged their story, who showed up for themselves, who leaned into their integrity, supported their young parts of self and did the work all the way through to the end... 

Has found their life.

That doesn't mean it's perfect or without suffering, but it is LIFE!

And they keep finding it.

Piece by piece. 
Story by Story.
Year by Year.

More and more life among the living.

Risk.

Relief.

And truth.

You are worthy.

xo,
Lora