Welcome to 2023!
In my review at the beginning of this series, I mentioned that there are three large sections of the monomyth.
They are:
Seperation
Initiation
Return
I said trauma makes us feel seperate from those in the ‘normal’ world. As that seperation becomes mores and more isolating it forces us to answer the call of adventure.
This call to adventure crosses us over the threshhold to the next section: Initiation
An initiation in this case is an event or experience that puts us on a journey toward something bigger. Its the choice we make to start the journey of healing.
This section means we have to go through the difficult things and challenge our beliefs and how we’re been doing life. Its hard, its messy, and it involves rewiring our brains and bodies. But that’s ok… because you’re willing to do the work. Those trials and challenges are going to break the unhealthy rules. It’ll feel dangerous, but the way you’ve been living with your pain and trauma is probably worse and more dangerous than whatever challenges, trauma secrets and beliefs you’re going to face when dealing with the darkness so that you can be healed.
It’s not that you’re wrong or evil person… you’ve developed ways to cope and that’s how you survived and learned how to function.
In some forms of pyschology this is called the shadow personality. We’ll talk about this next week… its not dark and scary, I promise.
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
Your stories are amazing!
Chronic Writer