Something to remember:
You are not the wound. Sometimes you will be looking at your body and you will locate a wound. Tend to the wound, sure. But try not to become so interested in the wound that it becomes the only thing that exists. You have a body beyond the wound. You have a giant of a body that includes the wound and can actually heal the wound if you let it. The body has what it needs for that, and it doesn’t need your full attention, I promise. Many times, I’ve magnified the wound and forgotten the rest of my body because I was asking — repeatedly, endlessly, through the ache — why the wound, why the wound, why the wound. Fair. Many things aren’t fair. But isn’t this such a heartsaving thing to remember?: It doesn’t matter how big or deep it is, the wound is not the body, the body is not the wound; the body is bigger, deeper, greater than the wound; dwarfs the wound.
For you:
You can afford to get even softer with yourself, you know? You can.
You are here as yourself.
That’s enough.
Let it be enough.
E.
Thank you for sharing this. Timely as ever. I am not the wound