Andrea Gibson

One, I heard this thing that said, and I don't know who said it, life is difficult, but it stops being difficult if you expect it to be difficult. If you expect it to be difficult, it stops being as difficult. As soon as I realized that all these things that were coming my way Were life coming my way? Were God coming my way? Even if I wanted to call it the devil, everything coming my way was God.

And everything was coming to in service of my spirit. As soon as I figured that out, whoa, I had so much more access to joy because I wasn't fighting with my life. The other thing I started doing was I read this book by Michael Singer called The Untethered Soul to actually figure out what had happened to me. And then he sort of had written it all out. And I just relaxed my body.

And everything was coming to in service of my spirit. As soon as I figured that out, whoa, I had so much more access to joy because I wasn't fighting with my life. The other thing I started doing was I read this book by Michael Singer called The Untethered Soul to actually figure out what had happened to me. And then he sort of had written it all out. And I just relaxed my body.

And everything was coming to in service of my spirit. As soon as I figured that out, whoa, I had so much more access to joy because I wasn't fighting with my life. The other thing I started doing was I read this book by Michael Singer called The Untethered Soul to actually figure out what had happened to me. And then he sort of had written it all out. And I just relaxed my body.

And when something comes through that's painful, I let it move through because I think that our wounds, our traumas are in the way of our natural energy of life and astonishment and joy and wonder and curiosity. The other thing is the undoing of shame. Something I call double suffering. I realized that my pain about my pain was worse than my pain.

And when something comes through that's painful, I let it move through because I think that our wounds, our traumas are in the way of our natural energy of life and astonishment and joy and wonder and curiosity. The other thing is the undoing of shame. Something I call double suffering. I realized that my pain about my pain was worse than my pain.

And when something comes through that's painful, I let it move through because I think that our wounds, our traumas are in the way of our natural energy of life and astonishment and joy and wonder and curiosity. The other thing is the undoing of shame. Something I call double suffering. I realized that my pain about my pain was worse than my pain.

I realized that the stories I would tell about whatever. So say I would feel a physical pain. Or I would be sick at the time. Then I would double on top of this, all these stories about being a burden. How about everybody's life is better than my life. I used to have a lot of shame around Lyme disease. I was closeted about it for a lot of years.

I realized that the stories I would tell about whatever. So say I would feel a physical pain. Or I would be sick at the time. Then I would double on top of this, all these stories about being a burden. How about everybody's life is better than my life. I used to have a lot of shame around Lyme disease. I was closeted about it for a lot of years.

I realized that the stories I would tell about whatever. So say I would feel a physical pain. Or I would be sick at the time. Then I would double on top of this, all these stories about being a burden. How about everybody's life is better than my life. I used to have a lot of shame around Lyme disease. I was closeted about it for a lot of years.

And that part, the hiding of it, it hurt almost as much as what I was going through itself. So anything to give yourself the love to not double suffer, to give Go with it without the stories that hurt. And one of the stories that hurt the most is a story that you're alone in what you're going through. That was the one that always hurt me.

And that part, the hiding of it, it hurt almost as much as what I was going through itself. So anything to give yourself the love to not double suffer, to give Go with it without the stories that hurt. And one of the stories that hurt the most is a story that you're alone in what you're going through. That was the one that always hurt me.

And that part, the hiding of it, it hurt almost as much as what I was going through itself. So anything to give yourself the love to not double suffer, to give Go with it without the stories that hurt. And one of the stories that hurt the most is a story that you're alone in what you're going through. That was the one that always hurt me.

And then finally, something that I heard that helped me so much, and this was years ago, but it didn't resonate until this year. I think I heard Pema Chodron say it. She said, if you want to have an easier time in life, you can cover the whole world in leather so it doesn't hurt when you walk, or you can make leather shoes.

And then finally, something that I heard that helped me so much, and this was years ago, but it didn't resonate until this year. I think I heard Pema Chodron say it. She said, if you want to have an easier time in life, you can cover the whole world in leather so it doesn't hurt when you walk, or you can make leather shoes.

And then finally, something that I heard that helped me so much, and this was years ago, but it didn't resonate until this year. I think I heard Pema Chodron say it. She said, if you want to have an easier time in life, you can cover the whole world in leather so it doesn't hurt when you walk, or you can make leather shoes.

And that's something that I have been learning because I think I had a lot of my focus outwardly for a lot of years of like, okay, I want to make the world safer for my queer community. I want to make the world safer for myself. So I'm going to do all of this stuff on the outside to try to get the world to be a safer place.

And that's something that I have been learning because I think I had a lot of my focus outwardly for a lot of years of like, okay, I want to make the world safer for my queer community. I want to make the world safer for myself. So I'm going to do all of this stuff on the outside to try to get the world to be a safer place.

And that's something that I have been learning because I think I had a lot of my focus outwardly for a lot of years of like, okay, I want to make the world safer for my queer community. I want to make the world safer for myself. So I'm going to do all of this stuff on the outside to try to get the world to be a safer place.

At that time, there were ways I was abandoning the building of my own shoes. And so I'm not saying to stop trying to make the world better. I'm saying we have to really understand the importance of doing both of those things at once. Because even right now, I see is what we're doing with trans and non-binary communities of saying, We have to do all this activist work.