Awakenings feel like our heart is breaking and being pieced back together again at the same time.

It feels like all the parts of ourselves are at war and they are inviting us to come along for the ride. It feels like we are caught between this person we say we want to be and the person we are right now. It can feel wretched one minute and like we are on cloud nine the next. Sometimes, it feels like limbo. And then, in the middle of the awakening, something happens. A flash of a fresh perspective that shifts the entire world on its axis, a rush of love to the heart that makes us grab our chest and catch our breath, someone telling us that we matter, an old wound that finally heals. Something releases. Something surrenders. There is a softening where there was once a hard place. Awakenings are the moments when you accept the past as a learning experience, and embrace the present as a beautiful opportunity for connection.