Pain is Powerful Teacher - Humbling and Generous

I spent most of my life running from the deeply uncomfortable parts. Childhood, youth, teenage years, and my first years in college and conservatory, not to mention all the rest. The perfectionism, shame, arrogance, jealousy, competitiveness, depression, despair all clamoring for my attention now that there are arms to welcome them, instead of push them aside and away. Some things just take a long, long time to simmer before they are ready to boil.

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