While staying with feelings of discomfort,
I begin to see my part in patterns of sustaining experiences
of struggle, doubt, anxiety, pain in my codependent relationships.
Now, with increasing clarity, I see the dramas in my life and the codependent roles I play within them: Caregiving to my troubled friend with a constant stream of harrowing crises; coddling my chronically wounded friend who can never receive enough love to believe in my safety and love offered. Too often I have stayed engaged, thinking how horrible it is to leave them alone in their endless suffering. In my attempts to detach, I confront my fear-based belief that if I establish clear boundaries or leave the relationship that I have failed and abandoned an already wounded soul.
Now, daily I commit to detaching from these roles
where I am completing the other half of suffering,
I know now that torment is not truth,
but instead a co-created illusion,
keeping us stuck in the energy of fear and woe.
I will deliver myself to freedom beyond my relationships marked by ongoing strife.
As I leave these relationships I feel my own sense of loss.
I grieve my loss of friendship
as I move away from the role of comforter, rescuer, healer.
Part of me will miss being in that dance of opposites that complete each other’s wounds.
But I can no longer stay in the pain of these stories of brokenness.
I pray that those that I leave will grow from the challenge.
I pray that they will absorb my timeless gift of love,
and that they will find the soul-inspiration
to take on and complete their own journey of transcendence.
In my volitional act of separation, death and re-creation,
I hold my transformational pains in my silent contractions of loneliness and doubt.
While simultaneously, I expand
with bliss, joy, confidence and abundant love
as I birth my new self!
Emerging through my Sacred Phoenix,
I Am in my own metamorphosis
materializing a new version of me,
defined boldly by love,
heart-centered truth,
confidence and conviction.
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha.
May all beings be happy and free.
Starting with me.
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