Monarch butterflies visited the flower garden at a local orchard during harvest season. Photo by Jamie Walters, 2009.
This is a really excellent reminder about the stories we tell ourselves, and live, so I wanted to share it with you, too, after I came upon it a few days ago.
What I appreciate about this story is that it shows that ‘rewriting the story’ is a spiraling sort of affair, not a one-time good deal.
As Jeff’s story shows, we live an experience and it shapes the story we tell ourselves, and speak out loud.
Then we get a reminder or have an insight arise, and rewrite a more desirable, constructive story.
Something happens and we begin to tell that story, and fair enough, maybe it’s true, and maybe we need to be in that story for a bit.
But after awhile it can become a diminishing story, a ‘stuck story’. So we get another reminder or insight and rewrite or revise that old story. And so on.
Jamie has long been an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times.
When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, co-creating a safe, in-person compassionate care environment in a world that increasingly seems to lack that.
Jamie is a long-time servant of the Muse, a writer and author, an intrepid walker and feline-tender, and is passionate about the healing power and relevance of reclaiming ancestral-wisdom and healing (or at least understanding) ancestral (and other types of) trauma. She has great appreciation for dark chocolate and cooking other nourishing, delicious meals -- often plant-based -- to nourish her partner and her peeps, and otherwise doing the same day to day things we all do.
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thank you soooo much for posting this and the link. we are our own worst enemy, but sometimes it is hard to find the exit-hope and faith become obscure. many blessings, much love, and a ton of gratitude.
January 20, 2016 at 7:17 pm
thank you soooo much for posting this and the link. we are our own worst enemy, but sometimes it is hard to find the exit-hope and faith become obscure. many blessings, much love, and a ton of gratitude.
January 21, 2016 at 10:21 pm
Beautiful story. Very true for everyone.
January 22, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Indeed it is, on both counts! Probably because Life gives us an abundance of story lines to choose from at any given moment. 🙂 xoxo Jamie