Pathways to Conscious Health From Victimhood to Empowerment By Dr Catherine Fyans Well, it has been a tough last couple of years. Speaking for myself - dizzying change on one hand, and stuck in the mire of excruciating non-movement on the other. Letting go of my forty-plus year career was a big one. Bitter-sweet. Attempting to create a new focus, identity, lifestyle and, hopefully, a source of income at my notso-tender age was another one. Definitely still is a work in progress. This, along with some significant people leaving my life and an illness, has presented some struggles.
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tower of moral high ground and seemingly ethical decisions come tumbling down when the basic supports of life appear to be elusive.
“I am all for embracing change and new challenges, ‘taking the leap’ and all that until I found myself in the midst of it.”
I have noticed that no one has come knocking at the front door to offer me exhilarating new life experiences and work opportunities. Risk is risk, and sacrifice is sacrifice, with absolutely no guarantee of any sort of universal compensation for choices made. This means I need to get off my butt and create my future myself and, hopefully, with some inspiration and guidance beyond the limited confines of my own ego-mind.
I am all for embracing change and new challenges, ‘taking the leap’ and all that until I found myself in the midst of it. Suddenly those shiny ideals lose their glitter when reality hits. It is sobering indeed to realise that those ideals do not pay the bills or compensate for the human warmth of acceptance and companionship. That ivory
The ‘victim’ archetype that we all share, at least to some degree, is the dominant archetype for me to work through in this lifetime. Oh joy! Because of this, it comes up in spades and is very persistent in teaching me; very clever in coming through the back door when I feel that I am out of its grasp.
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The journey however, is from victimhood to self-responsibility and self-empowerment. Whether this is our dominant archetype or not, we are currently, individually and collectively, presented with various opportunities to propel us to embrace that odyssey. We learn and grow the most when we are stretched a little when we have to push beyond what we already knew and who we thought we were. The ‘who-we-thought-wewere’ part does not willingly give up its hold; it has to be coached along with promises of an adventure like no other. And what could be more exhilarating than facing all our fears rolled into one at the same time? From need come solutions, and the choice is to either create and find new ways or chuck in the towel and lapse back into dependency. Life doesn’t muck around; rather, it has an uncompromising, tough-love attitude, and
