Aburi Mountains, Aburi, Ghana

Once you learn the truth — you cannot go back to believing the lie.

That is what awareness does. It shows you what is real. And once you have seen it — once you have learned it — you cannot unlearn what you have now seen.

And then comes the part nobody warns you about.

-Grief.

We avoid it. We suppress it. We keep moving so we don't have to feel it.

But you cannot release what you have never allowed yourself to feel.

Physical pain tells the truth about a wound. Grief tells the truth about what awareness revealed.

Awareness brought me face to face with everything I had been carrying. And I had a choice — feel it or keep moving like I hadn't seen it.

Feeling it was the only way through.

Awareness without grief is just information. It does not heal.

To release something you have to feel it first. Sit in it. Not forever. 

But long enough to know what you are actually letting go of.

That is what comes next.

#52Days #52Truths