Enduring the Storm
Chaotic clarity
Monday: Don’t let people pull you into their storm, pull them into your peace. Thanks, Diana C.:)!
Maintaining my emotional certainty has been a big lesson for me to learn.
There have been many times in my life I have felt amidst a storm- yet now I see it often wasn’t even my storm. It was someone else’s I was being drawn into weathering with them. It was always a way for me to distract myself from my own storms I needed to face.
Because I am highly sensitive, I feel greatly empathetic towards other people very easily. But as my sister re-affirmed to me on the phone the other week, there is a big difference between empathizing and enmeshment.
I have learned the hard way if I can’t master my empathetic side in any given situation with people and find myself being drawn into their worlds too much I need to get some space and clarity. Sometimes I even need to sever the connection.
Now I’m learning to weather my storm. And it’s clear to me that I have very little energy for even getting close to being involved in other people’s storms now.
I have more patience for myself.
I am trying to remind myself it is okay to focus most of my energy on myself.
The storms of other people are none of my business and weathering them with people does them no favor either.
There has been inner peace I have found within my storm. Like in the eye of a cyclone, I have realized where my energy needs to continue to go. What I need to focus on. Where I need to create strong boundaries, and where I need to lighten up in areas of my life.
My energy feels pulled in so many directions at times amidst the chaos of the storm. My emotions have been a rollercoaster, though externally I remain still.
It feels like chaotic clarity is seeping into all areas of my life right now. It is chaotic because the clarity is dissolving so much of what was my truth of the past into nothingness- to make way for newness.
Don’t let people pull you into their storm. It can cause confusion and separation from your truth. It can stir up fear and create attachments in unhealthy ways.
Pull people into your peace by being happy, safe, and secure within yourself.
This has been my big task in life now. Finding peace and love within myself.
Enduring the storm by being there for myself through thick and thin.
The storm is happening for me, not to me. It is clearing a path for changes that are deeply aligned with my passions and purpose. I’m grateful for the chance to finally weather my storm, no longer distracting myself with the storms of others.
