
And I believe the fight of our lives, the war of our generation, is to hear ourselves and heed the call coming from inside the house. I know everything is love or a call for love. I know some deep breaths or even the slightest movement is usually a first step towards entering in right relationship with myself.
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I know pain not used well will keep me from my spiritual nature, which is inherently free. I know my plastic brain & electric body need the proper environment and the appropriate sustenance to be, to function, to grow. I know any reactivity is a perceived threat to one or more needs and the more I practice recognizing it in myself & in others, the more effective de-escalating I have access to. out of resourced appreciation, not distressed need or obligation. (Thank you wiseheartpdx) I know when I’m fully present to receiving, whether from myself or another, I am compelled to give. Think fawning or people pleasing as a survival skill.Īs I have parsed out my own autonomy within the compulsion to connect (also known as interdependence) over the years, I’m only recently practicing this feelings-to-needs pipeline. Undermining your ability to develop a stable sense of self. They usually offer skills for 50, or as a reward for successfully negotiating dialogue. Paired skills are skills which are touching side by side, like the top two rows in the Warrior Monk example Trainers. You can only learn one paired skill, the other skill will be locked out. When you think something is innately wrong with you, you seek relief by doing things for others so you receive praise, recognition, or affection. Tier 3 skills: Can only be bought from a tree once you've unlocked that tree's Breakthrough skill. When your childhood needs are unmet, when you can’t rely on your parents to nurture your emotional needs, the tendency is not to blame your parent but yourself. New dungeons with great rewards await those who venture forth within the depths of these deadly, mysterious and. The level of corruption affects you in different ways. Children within these families often had their pain, anger, shame, and fear unacknowledged, denied, criticized, or invalidated. Soroboreans Expansion: Adds new Skills, Enchantments, New weapon type (The Gauntlets) and terrifying Dungeons and blood-thirsty creatures. Cutting off ties to the body were the most intelligent way within our reach to stay seemingly safe. Born within systems we didn’t have the emotional intelligence to navigate, older generations have mostly modeled denial, disassociation or numbing as adapative coping strategies.

I remember an interview where Bassel van der Kolk (who wrote “the body keeps score”) shared how we culturally take a pill or a swig of something to change our internal harmony, siting how this has bred generations of adult children of alcoholics who live dysfunctionally codependent. The shadow work of mine is to constantly reorient to embodied sovereignty and internal validation as a practice of balancing imbalance. I am a drop of water in the ocean that is still the ocean.

I am the observer not separate from the observed. People, animals, trees, flowers, insects, soil. In truth, I live wildly rooted in connection to all things. Across the sky, in Aries, the sign of SELF, i have a single placement signifying OTHER. I have many placements stacked up in connection to OTHERS in my first house of SELF. Initiates relationships (great for pattern recognition, terrible for navigating bureaucratic red tape). Libra is a sign of balance, beauty, collaboration, harmony, justice.
