Reclaim Reflections: The Next Right Thing
The next right thing.
That is all we have to do.
I have a tendency to spiral. To look at the current reality and feel despair, feel hopeless, question whether or not accountability will be had and wonder if there are enough helpers to pull us all up and through. A very well ingrained pattern. If this, then this. Then what? What if this? What if that? What if no matter what it is not enough and we continue to see the same systems take advantage of all but the .01%?
Collectively and personally, it is easy to spiral.
And no, it is not serving any of us.
Yes, it is well-ingrained wiring.
Yes, we can interrupt the pattern.
Interrupt the pattern.
Moving forward from a place of our vision for the future instead of from what has held us back. Who do you want to be? Not who have you been, not what has kept you stuck, but what is your vision for the future? For yourself, for your relationships, for the collective?
We will not get there by repeating the stories over and over. Yes, we need to look at the story; the rewriting of our past in order to help us release the pain. Working through the set of traumas we’ve endured (trauma=too much, too fast, too soon) in order to honor what our bodies are needing to move forward.
It is easy to get stuck in the story. To repeat it over and over without ever really rewriting it. The body is what is holding the story and learning how to speak its language and let it do what it needs to do…that is how we break the cycle. That is how we interrupt the pattern.
Your patterns serve a purpose. Your body has done an incredible job of keeping you safe. And once the threat is gone, of course your body is continuing to repeat the pattern. It hasn’t learned safety yet. Most often, it hasn’t felt safe enough to go back and rewrite the story.
Trauma work is about creating capacity for the system to rewire. Allowing the body to explore past experiences and complete whatever impulses it needed at the time but wasn’t safe to express.
First, we do this on a personal level, then we do it on a collective level.
Heal the trauma, break the pattern, move forward with increased capacity. That is how we will experience something new. That is how we create supportive systems; for you, for me, for all of us. Returning to the next right thing, again and again, is how we will change everything.
With hope,
Juliana