a thought & three small gifts

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:

a song

another song

a powerful essay

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.