Reconnect to your aliveness.
I feel your pain. The pain of rarely being seen or heard for who you are. Of having to conform to a certain standard to even be valued.
As a Master Somatic Coach who works in organizations, it is a risk to step out and share this pain. It is such a risk that we sit back and wait for the culture to change. For it to become acceptable for who ever is not in the center to step onto the bridge, walk toward the center, and be welcomed with open arms.
What often happens, as you know, is the center sees out and you see in. They don’t know there is not a bridge because they don’t need to cross it.
If you stay silent, they will never know you are on the outside, feeling left out and alone. Many of those in the center want to be welcoming — they just forgot to tell their face and their body.
When YOU reconnect to your aliveness, you realize YOU are worth risking for. You uncover an inner strength that buoys you and supports you to take the risk — to tell the center, “There is no bridge. Here’s how to help me build it.”
The risk is often met with faces that are not inviting, with arms that are not open but crossed. If we do not know that this means people are thinking. That people are considering. That people are actually confused at how that could be possible. We might turn away from the edge and walk away from the center — where a rope to string a rudimentary bridge is being thrown to us.
To stay in that place of discomfort at the edge, we must realize that we are uncomfortable — and that is ok. You will survive this discomfort. This discomfort of figuring out how to build the bridge actually creates shared language and increase our capacity.
AND they — whoever they are — are uncomfortable too. It may be the first time they have been uncomfortable in this way. You have practice.
How do we learn to stay with the fallen face and the crossed arms long enough for the face to lift and the arms to open? How long must we wait for the bridge to be built?
I do not know. I do know that the circle contains the whole. We all live with in the larger circle we call the earth community. Together, we create what is possible.
Reconnect supports you to remove barriers that block what you see and who you see. The course builds the inner strength needed to stand or keep standing for a new way forward.
Are you ready for the new way? I am. Join me.
