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Floating to Safety
“I didn’t know that safety could be found on the side of a mountain.”
A mountain trail with her aunt, and learning what it feels like to be held.
Water teaches
Safety is not something we find outside ourselves ~ it is something we remember inside ourselves, often in the moment we finally stop trying to hold everything together and let something larger hold us instead.
Reflection
- When did you last feel truly held ~ not managed, not maintained, but held ~ by a person, a place, or something greater than yourself?
- What would it take to let yourself be held like that again?
This teaching closes Passage Six of Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.