This is about someone who suffered quietly amid an entire family’s dysfunction. This is describing you who were stifled because someone else owned the whole narrative and you didn’t feel adequately supported to share yours. This is relative to a person who was not allowed to give any context, because those missing details would derail the main story being sold.
There is fear when speaking out about something that feels shameful, intimidating, or threatening. There is fear when holding it inside and not telling.
When the fear becomes less than the pain it takes to shut it out, make it go away, or reframe it so it doesn’t cause a stir, then a new moment is born. When the fear becomes less than the months, years or decades that you’ve had to hold it deep inside, then a powerful day has begun. When the fear is now less than the safety you believed you were creating by keeping a secret, then the time has come to claim your space and own the real feelings you’ve had to deny.
You are becoming fearless. You are empowered. Whether you begin being honest with yourself, finally, or if you bring them out for someone else to bear witness to your words of truth. - Susan Frybort
The black sheep is sometimes the only one telling the truth. - unknown
It takes a powerful person to cry out despite those who'd prefer the convenience of silence. It takes a fearless person to allow their sadness to come out from the tight box of cultural expectations to be expressed and processed.
And it takes a world of strength for that same person to be true to their feelings, own their emotional territory, to walk into the very chaos of its outrught messiness, and uncover the paragons of victory and joy that was held by them, for such an aching long time, so quietly within. - Susan Frybort, Open Passages
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