Andrea Gibson

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.

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.