Christina Ducruet
@stina
Long time internet nerd; seamstress of people and ideas; designing experiences for soulful self-discovery
Christina Ducruet
@stina
Long time internet nerd; seamstress of people and ideas; designing experiences for soulful self-discovery
ritual and creativity
Sadness moves the individual “us” toward the collective “us.”
Sadness moves the individual “us” toward the collective “us.”
everything within our physical, mental, and emotional experience that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable is actually what God is for us, winking at us in a language we cannot yet speak. To awaken fully to this language, and to be able to converse fluently in it, requires feeling what is happening to us in each moment without judgment, agenda, or concer
... See moreOnly by allowing ourselves to feel our sadness can we reawaken to the new possibilities and pleasures offered by the next stage of our lives.
... See moreOur humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. We rummage through the chaos of our inner worlds, through our multitude of selves, to discover what we are, what we wish to be, and our authentic relationship with the world. This proces
A more evolved relationship to ourselves—of the kind psychotherapists seek to promote—can assuage the itch to deliver upbeat messages by prompting us to make our peace with sorrow. Someone might say that they are sad and we could in time learn simply, and more helpfully, to answer, “I hear you.” Another might insist, “Everything is awful,” and we m
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