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Jen Lawrence's avatar

Love this! Avoidance will always bite us and in midlife we are just too damned tired to outrun it.

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Nadine Araksi (she/her)'s avatar

Haha. Preach!!

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jackiyovanoff's avatar

“instead of trying to erase the ache.” This is what I’ll be sitting with. I love how you’ve stated metabolizing feelings/reactions rather than getting over or past them. It’s got me noodling about myself and my role as a group facilitator.

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Tracy Moore's avatar

Once again you pierced my soul with this one. This is the statement I’m working through in my own life right now:

What society often frames as "falling apart" or "being too emotional" is actually the courageous work of reclaiming parts of yourself that have been silenced. It's not collapse — it's revolution. It's finding your way back to wholeness, one uncomfortable feeling at a time.

Because I’ve been cracked open and I can’t stop the leak now. I’m spending a lot of time with my feelings and making up for years of ignoring them. I cued up Live to Tell on your playlist and before I even started the timer I was crying. It’s what I do now. I should get paid for these tears. I’d be a trillionaire. But instead of stopping the tears I’ve gotten real comfortable with them.

Thank you for creating a series that sees us, like really sees us, as woman who have thrived through a lifetime of conditioning and now are ready to bust out. It’s a beautiful, sacred, messy, fucked up, joyous ride. Love you Nad.

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Treena Orchard's avatar

We over function. Sadness in a sequined jumpsuit xoo

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Nadine Araksi (she/her)'s avatar

Haha waving with jazz hands

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