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What I’ve Always Known to be True.
For four decades, I attempted to live by a set of beliefs and values. These were all taught to me — directly or indirectly. However, my inner world was frequently misaligned with these outer beliefs. Which caused grief, shame, avoidance and, inevitability, depression. This is what happens when you subscribe to extrinsic beliefs and don’t examine what you truly believe.
In 2011, I began a journey (in reflection, somewhat sub-consciously) to find out what I truly believed. I didn’t want to just deconstruct these taught beliefs. I wanted to see what I believed in my soul. But I didn’t know where to start, but figured that tracing the roots of what I was taught to believe back to their source was as good a starting point as any. I also pushed the boundaries of the various orthodoxies I’d been taught. In early 2014, I read Paulo Coelho’s seminal book “The Alchemist”. A light came on. My soul has a voice. This voice guides me on my mission.
From this journey, I now believe we are each born with an inner knowing. A sort of genetic spiritual material that is either awakened or suppressed by parents, teachers, society, circumstances, experiences. As I listened to the voice of my soul, I began to uncover some intrinsic values: LOVE. TRUTH. ADVENTURE. DEFIANCE. I then asked myself the question we now ask in every Root Session experience with our clients: “What have you…
