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What Keeps us Trapped…
…The original trauma, or our responses to it?
Day 12 — July 20, 2021 — The Trappings of Trauma
I think I see it. Why I can’t have Him. Why I can’t be with him. Because it’s not the path I’m supposed to walk.
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” Guy Gavriel Kay
I can’t stay with Him because my destiny is to do this thing I’m trying to do — integrate my vocation and avocation, connect my passion and purpose, unite my heart and mind. The path I am meant to walk seals my fate — I must relinquish Him.
I am at the fork in the road, I see Him on one path, and I know I cannot take that path because my destiny lies on the other. I am conflicted for a simple reason: I cannot imagine something as good or better than what I have with him. I can’t imagine it because it is literally inconceivable to me, meaning I have no “frame of reference” to imagine it.
I used to use the phrase “frame of reference” to describe when something happened that was outside my knowledge and experience — when…
