Bec Sparrow, being. with Lael Stone | The Friends Who Hold You ♥︎
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Ah, the human experience with our flaws, our passions, our triggers, our inspirations and our imprints. If we could see behind everyone's story, then perhaps what we would have is deep compassion. In this podcast, I get the chance to explore these stories from some truly fascinating people in some honest and heartwarming conversations. And best of all, I get to share these discussions with you. I'm Lael Stone, and this is Humans Being. Welcome everybody to Humans Being. It's lovely to have you here. My humanness this week has been all about reflection and in the context of I have a mentorship that I run that goes for eight months and it's a journey that I take people on and every month we look at a different part of who we are as humans.
We start at where we're born and then, you know, the first month is about birth and the second month is about the child and the third month is about the teenager and And the fourth month, we explore our relationship to sexuality. And then we move on to our purpose and relationships. And it's deep and it's really all about understanding ourselves more. And at this time of recording, we have just finished the month of the teenage self. And I have done this, you know, guided people through this work, you know, quite a few times. And each time that I do it, other elements of my inner world surface, and particularly with the teenager for this month, I have been doing a lot of reflecting and sitting in what we do as a teenager in order to belong.
And, you know, one of the things I've really been sitting with is a lot of, well, trying to have a lot of compassion for myself. Because as I look back to teenage Lael, who, when I look, well, when I feel into her, she was just so awkward. I mean, I think most teenagers are pretty awkward. But she was really looking for wanting just to be accepted and belonging, which I think is the journey of many through adolescence. And as part of that wanting to belong, you know, I recall and I'm reflecting on times in my life where perhaps I didn't treat people well, perhaps where I abandoned myself in order to just belong and fit in. And now having the adult lens, as I look back on that part of my life, I just feel this deep compassion for teenage me.
It's like I want to go back in time and hug her and say, you know, you don't have to do this in order to belong, and You are amazing just the way you are and you will find your feet, I promise you, and you will develop into something so amazing and you'll be able to take your gifts out of there into the world. But as I've been working with that teenage part of me, you know, there's been, I guess, you know, just a lot of compassion and tenderness needed for those times where perhaps I didn't stand my ground or I didn't behave, you know, in a way that was really honoring of myself and others. So my invitation for those listening is, when you think back on that teenage self, when you think about that time in your life, I mean, a lot of us actually go, I do not want to think about that time in my life, because it can, you know, it can be painful for some people.
But if you were to look back on that teenage you, through a lens of deep compassion for the being that you were at that time, you know, are there words that you would want to offer that part of you? Is there something that you want to lean into and just hold tenderly about that? I often say, because I've worked with parents for a long time, you know, we move through all these stages of our lives and then we become parents. And then when our kids start to move through puberty and into adolescence, it's often when all those changes. stories and pieces that we've pushed down around our teenage self-surface. And so it can be a beautiful thing to look and reflect on when we're not in the thick of it and raising teens, so we can actually do a little bit of our own work.
So by the time our kids do get to that space, we're pretty anchored and grounded and perhaps we've done some of our own healing work.
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