In the Open, Episode 349
We're born as wide-open hearts, but very quickly discover that the world around us is not ready or able to welcome us in our fulness. So early on we learn strategies to put large parts of ourselves away - to belong by unbelonging many aspects of ourselves.
It's necessary, unavoidable even, but comes at a huge cost. So can we learn as we traverse our years of adulthood to bring ourselves out into the open where it is, in the end, possible to be most fully loved? And can we be the ones who love our friends, partners, children and colleagues 'out into the open' by being an affordance for those around us to bring themselves forward ever more fully?
This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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Here’s our source for this week:
In The Open
No matter the strength of shyness
No matter how tempting it is to keep myself a secret
Oh how comfort’s infestation spreads
While it urges me to do nothing
There is no room to hide
In a world I am made for
Out in the open
There is no room to hide
I am supposed to be loved
Out in the open
Morgan Lahm
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