“Society doesn’t always know what’s right. Our families tell us stories about ourselves that often aren’t true. Sometimes we have to follow our hearts.”
I just finished listening to Elizabeth Gilbert talking about Martha Beck’s idea of the integrity cleanse. Beck believes that the body, the gut, never lies and that we have to reach past and beyond ingrained messages from culture, family, and trauma to know what’s right for us. We all know that gut feeling. We don’t always follow it. How many times have you talked yourself out of a gut feeling and then later thought: I knew it!?
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