Sometimes life can really hurt. You put your best foot forward, and still you get knocked on your ass. Ouch.

Whatever the story, when we’re left in the aftermath of our own pain, it can sometimes feel like you could drown in the intensity of it and never figure out how to put yourself back together. I affectionately call this experience “the Humpty Dumpty” phase.

On one level, there’s no doubt about it, pain just totally sucks. But the chaotic, broken feeling that comes with pain can also afford us a unique gateway into some of the most beautiful knowings and experiences in our lives.

But how do you access that place when you’re in the throes of your own personal agony? Watch and find out.


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One way or another, your pain will insist on being attended to; so you might as well make your meeting with pain as conscious as it can be.

If you need a little more encouragement to face it head on, I share with you one of my favorite Rumi poems entitled. “The Guest House”.

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Big love my friends,

Amy