REMEMBER THE UNBROKEN
When you 'break up' with a partner,it unleashes ancient and powerful feelingsof abandonment and unsafety.Do not rush to the next relationship!Slow right down. You need radical self-care now.Strip away the narrative; return to bodily sensations.
Know that you are contacting something so sacred.The feeling of abandonment is a real bodily memory.There is a lost child inside of you, still yearning for mommy.
Be kind to the child:Send awareness deep into the belly.Breathe into the discomfort.Drench the abandoned one with attention.Do not abandon it now, or ever again.
All that has 'broken up' is a dream.Infuse your trauma with presence.This is you, healing; not you, broken.
This is a beginning, not an end.Ah, the gift of breaking up:you can collect yourselfin the warm light of presence.And discover true love;this delicious intimacy,this willingness to break,and this callto rememberthe Unbroken.-
Jeff Foster
Image: Sunset Reflected on Shattered Mirrors by Bing Wright
