Posts tagged unpacking grief
Zimmerman Podcast Episode 123: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: Listening for Soul Messages from the Spiritual World

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 123: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: Listening for Soul Messages from the Spiritual World

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Zimmerman Podcast Episode 122: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: What Does True Soul Freedom Look Like?

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 122: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: What Does True Soul Freedom Look Like?

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Zimmerman Podcast Episode 121: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: How to Remember Who We Are

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 121: EXCHANGING EGO FOR SOUL: How to Remember Who We Are

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Zimmerman Podcast Episode 120: EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Mourning the Life We Thought We’d Live

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 120: EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Mourning the Life We Thought We’d Live

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EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Mourning the Life We Thought We’d Live

Sometimes, whether slowly or all at once, you realize that your life is not and will never be what you thought it would be. Even if it is more beautiful than you thought possible, even if you are more fulfilled than you could have imagined, even if you wouldn’t take that first dream life back for all the money in the world, you eventually need to grieve the life you fought so hard for… the life you’ll never have and maybe never had.  

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Zimmerman Podcast Episode 119: EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Finding the Unexpected Gifts in Trauma

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 119: EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Finding the Unexpected Gifts in Trauma

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EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: Finding the Unexpected Gifts in Trauma

I remember when Brian and I moved to Nashville after our year of traveling the country in an Airstream, and I was convinced that putting down new roots in a new city would be the final step in our healing journey. Both individually and together. I thought Brian would finally be able to meet new friends, get excited about getting a job, we could go on dates to places we've never been before, and enjoy the culture of a big city. There was nothing I wouldn’t do to help us move forward. I just didn’t realize at the time that the one thing I couldn’t do was move Brian forward with me. And I tried. 

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Zimmerman Podcast Episode 118: EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: A Purposeful Surrender

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 118: EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: A Purposeful Surrender

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EMBRACING DARKNESS AND UNPACKING GRIEF: A Purposeful Surrender

In order for something to grow, it first has to be pruned. If you’ve ever lived in the south, you’ve seen Crepe Myrtle trees surrounding houses and lining neighborhood streets in cities all over the place. There is nothing more jarring than seeing a Crepe Myrtle in springtime. They prune back those trees so much it’s hard to believe they’ll ever produce growth again. 

And yet every year, they come back bigger and more beautiful than ever before. And if they hadn’t been pruned, they’d be weak, scrawny, and more susceptible to damage. 

The same is true with us.

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Embracing Darkness and Unpacking Grief: The Bright Side of Shadow Work

For the first four weeks of The Path Back to You, we focused on energy, digging into what it looks like to raise our vibrations. Now, I bet I can guess what’s happened since you’ve started that journey. 

Sh*t got hard. Really hard. 

We have the phrase “growing pains” for a reason. 

When you start growing, everything gets harder before it gets easier. You’ve decided to wake up to yourself, which means casting off all the old coping mechanisms and numbing techniques you’ve used to get through hard things in the past. 

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