Natalie
I am forever the Phoenix, never actually asleep, but always rising. Finding my wings after each flame, every fire. Out of the ashes, I will fly into a new, higher being.
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I Didn’t Survive It; I Became a New Person (opens the original)
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I don’t know how you do it. How you survive and stay so strong?I didn’t.I became someone else.This is the thing I feel we need to understand about healing:We really don’t go back.We don’t return to the old self. To whom we used to be.That version of us that existed before we experienced that thing that changed us.We may try to go back to the way we used t
The Secrets We Carry (opens the original)
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This isn’t just about surviving the things we have endured, but allowing ourselves to look at what it made of us and what becomes possible when we finally stop burying pain and suffering that we’ve carried for so long.The secrets we carry aren’t always about what happened, it is how much of ourselves that we have kept hidden to keep going. To feel safe, to feel worthy, and out of fear that it will change how others see us.Becoming fully seen can come with a cost.<p style="text-ali
It was more than a pain in the neck. (opens the original)
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My body wasn’t betraying me.It was speaking the only language I hadn’t learned to listen to yet.Way before my journey into the realm of cancer, my body began speaking to me, telling me to pay attention, beginning in May 2006. I was still living in the conditioning that was constantly telling me to take up less space, quiet my voice, and mute my natural power. Just be quiet.Decades later, I realized that the part of my body asking for my attention wa
The Bitch Came Back (opens the original)
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I was standing at the exact edge of my own freedom, when the ground I was about to leap from disappeared beneath me.In July of 2018, I finally felt free, I had finally gotten the elephant to take its foot off my chest.I had ended my relationship, and with it, I could breathe again.I felt happiness flowing back through my veins, the feeling of restriction breaking free throughout my body, and my nervous system resetting. It was a moment that was a long time comi
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