Today we are looking into the big picture of a healing journey. I am going to share 4 different metaphor's of this process and you can pick which one resonates the most with you.  

This was in a sermon recently and I loved it so much.  The reason I connected to it so much because as someone whose recovering from Codependency and People Pleasing, I morphed and changed so much into who others wanted me to be..I literally lost who I was.

As believers, we are called to be set apart and when I look at a caterpillar I see growth and transformation.  Lets talk more about the different ways we can look at this quote!  

After I recorded this episode, I read this in my bible study:

We cause some of the wreck and ruin because we have a plan. We implement the plan and accomplish only what we can do. We ask God to bless out plans and then promise to give him all the glory when he does. Yet God is not glorified by making our plans succeed. He receives glory when HIS will is done his way.

He could accomplish more in 6 months through a people yielded to him than we could do in 60 years without him. 

I am the worst at this, I am impulsive and quick to act on idea's...before others are finished thinking, I have already started the process! This can get me in trouble (in a lot of ways lol) but mainly when I run ahead of God! 

Lets to dig into WHY staying on God's path and in his timing is BEST for us! 

I spent years, I mean YEARS doing anything I could to avoid, push down, numb or escape FEELING. 

After giving up all my crutches and intentionally letting myself FEEL, I realized...I have never let myself feel! 

I know that sounds crazy, obviously I have had emotions...but to sit in them, let them be expressed, embraced and processed...nope, never. 

As I learn to sit in my feelings, without trying to find something to make me feel better, I have learned something very important: THEY DONT LAST FOREVER! Even the overwhelming ones, they are intense forsure, but they do pass and something happens or comes up that moves us into another emotion. (sure we might come back into that feeling often, but I challenge you to name and notice your feelings and see how long they actually last. I think you will be surprised to see that eventually something happens where you are focused on something else or get distracted for at least a little bit!

Something helped me IMMENSELY is an emotion wheel.  It helps identify what your feeling because if thats not normal for you, its so helpful to have a resource to just look at and be like 'oh yeah Im frustrated, or angry etc' 

What I found helps even more with it, is that it helps you identify the feeling you are feeling and then leads you to the UNDERLYING feeling--the primary feeling!