You descend. An anxiety spiral takes you here pretty effectively. In fact, an anxiety spiral is the descent toward grace. Can you see how I’m repositioning things here? Can you see what I’ve been working up to? You go into pain. How? You sit in it. You stay. You simply be uncomfortable. You get raw. You don’t change hotel rooms. Then you open. As you sit in the pain, you face what you’ve been fleeing. You see it and let it be. You create space for it to do that old “it is what it is” thing. You let it unfurl and express. This is not easy. But it’s bold and brave and purposeful. Next, you
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