You are Special

Yes, that’s right. Special! From the latin specialis, or belonging to a particular species or kind.

You are one-of-a-kind! The cutting edge of nature unfolding.

The universe expressing itself to the best of its ability right now.

You are literally made of stardust.

Despite these facts, our guardians like to minimize how special we are.

In keeping us safe, they dim our starlight. They trim us down to size. They tell us we are “too much,” that we have no right to “bigness”.

Thankfully, the more we do our inner work, the more our guardians relax and the more expressive we become.

Health is not small, scarce, limited, or constrained.

Health is VIBRANT and ABUNDANT.

Health fills the available space.

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You can simplify the psyche down to protective parts and the expressive parts they protect.

Protective parts, or guardians, or inner parents, try to keep us alive.

Expressive parts or inner children want to be seen and heard.

In a supported and well-functioning nervous system, we go back-and-forth between protecting and expressing.

In a traumatized nervous system we may live in a permanent state of protective lock down where our expressive parts are shamed, burdened, or exiled.

We succeed in life to the degree in which we can reveal our expressive parts and have them accepted by those close to us.

We succeed to the degree in which we can honor our specialness.

If we die before our expressive parts can emerge and be accepted, it is no small tragedy.