RECLAMING YOUR TRUE SELF By Angela Dunning
Embracing
Your Fate
W
tually are.
e spend much time and energy resisting the circumstances of our lives. We want things to have been; to be now and in the future, different from what they ac-
Photo by Mike Palmowski
This resistance can include wishing we’d been born into a different, easier family and environment; wishing things hadn’t been as they were when we were a child and a teenager; wishing we had more money, status, and power; wishing we were in a relationship; denying the needs and messages of our physical body and wishing the pain or illness would go away; we wish we could get that promotion or change our career altogether; we dislike how we look and we see our so-called flaws and inabilities as things to be ashamed of and therefore kept hidden. So much time wasted in denial of the reality of the life we’ve been born into and the path we’re traveling.
14 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM e May 2020