dont read this if your lifes perfect
You could be happy, but then maybe you wouldn’t be reading this. You could be blissfully unaware. If you’re not ruminating or feeling numb or down or anxious or distracted then read no further… but I know most of us are. You could be shit scared of sitting with pain. I know I am. I’ve hiked volcanos, swam with sharks, gone solo traveling, married a narcissist, and im still shit scared of sitting with my own pain. But suppressing or distracting ourselves from pain is like standing in the middle of a war zone with our heads in the sand. Youre still a sitting duck for the bullets, shrapnel and chaos that you will inevitably cause or receive by doing nothing about your pain. Once you know, you cant un know, and once you’ve recognised everything, what do you do but ruminate over it and be generally miserable, which is pointless. So; distraction, distraction, distraction, right? WRONG! The pain will not swallow you whole and leave you entirely incapacitated if you tackle it. The pain is...