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Space is Safe

What is this Emptiness I Feel? Is it brought on by Fear? Is this Emptiness, Or just Space From the new room I have created? Triggered by these new feelings of space, I want to immediately fill it with non-virtuous things. Unnecessary materials. Trivial activities. Unhealthy people. For the sake of Not Feeling. Perhaps from this Space, I feel something New. I didn’t create a Hole in me, I am becoming a Whole new me Or maybe More Whole. I am allowing my Soul to breathe. Before, my Soul was constricted; Suffocated and restricted by the Rigidity in which I lived. Now that I have abandoned the stringency, I am left with a New Found Freedom. And It Feels Foreign. I want to judge it. Label it as “Dangerous” Or “Unsafe”. On the contrary, I Need Not Fear Space. Having Choices and Freedom Is not only Healthy, But a True Sign I am in Recovery.
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lauren-somerville
American
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Written by
lauren-somerville
American
Published
Jan 23, 2015
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48·155
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Today I felt an uncomfortable emptiness, I wanted to fill the voids with anything I could find to cease the feelings and be dumb to the discomfort. Instead, I reached for my journal and pen, and this was where I was led. I still don't quite understand this emptiness/space cultivating inside of me, but I am not ready to abandon it just yet. If we are strong enough to tolerate the discomfort and overcome our fear to feel our feelings, we can be led to a better path, hopefully a path to liberation.

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