Take Back Your Life!
Is it possible for you to lose your life but still be walking, talking, breathing, thinking, moving?
Have you ever considered the possibility that during the course of your life that you’ve given bits and pieces of yourself away?
Do you hold all the power in your life? Are you fully seated there, embracing and embodying it without reservation? Or are you holding back?
Do you feel whole and full, or do you feel fragmented and scattered?
These are big questions and their significance came to me several years ago when a friend of mine boldly exclaimed in the middle of a late-night conversation: “I’m taking my life back.” Something in this statement resonated and got me thinking: What would it mean to reclaim our lives, and how did we lose it in the first place?
How exactly does one give one’s power away?
After sitting with these questions for several days, the answers starting fluttering in, forming a vivid picture. I saw scenes from my life and the lives of people I knew, engaged in numerous encounters throughout our lives — addictive or co-dependent relationships, authoritarian work situations, time spent with energy vampires, being dishonest with ourselves and others — all causing us to fragment. A piece dropped here, another piece given away there, a big chunk taken from us there.
