Ceremony

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When you are in a rebirth, you don’t know you’re being reborn. All you know is that something inside of you is dying. That is the only thing that feels real. This book was produced by Chris Lavergne and Noelle Beams. Cover art and typesetting by KJ Parish. Special thanks to Isidoros Karamitopoulos for circulation management. Book Genre: Mental Health, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Poetry, Psychology, Self Help, Spirituality Published by Thought Catalog Books, an imprint of the digital magazine Thought Catalog, which is owned and operated by The Thought & Expression Company LLC, an independent media organization based in Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California.

Love is soul work. Love can be met and joined with attraction and infatuation and all of that, but love will not fade when those things do. You can choose to close your heart to love, and run away, and avoid it for as long as you can in every way you can think of but if it was really, truly, the other-worldly, almost supernatural kind of love that we can only hope to be graced with at least once in this life experience, it will not leave you. You can love many people, but at the end of the day, the love you need to choose is the love that, even if you close your heart to, still moves you. The love you still write about. The love you can’t face. The love you’re still not okay with losing, that you’re angry about; the love that uprooted your life and contorted your being. The love you ran away from because it showed you who you are without the guise of worth given from someone else. This is love because these are all signs that you are closing your heart and to be doing so, there has to be something going through you for you to be able to close off. Real love will be the love you realize that remains even after you close your heart to it, because it sustains itself. It drives you forward. It brings up all the unhealed parts of you that you have to reconcile.”When you are in a rebirth, you aren’t reborn just once. It comes in waves and layers. You let go and then you let go a little bit more. Without even realizing what is happening, the new pieces of your life begin to emerge. You stumble upon the things that feel so right, you almost wonder if they’re too good to be true. You don’t let yourself settle into any certainty. Slowly, you begin to see what must go, how the world around you must now change to match the changed one within you. The real love story was always you and you. It was how you walked alone and learned what you needed to carry. It was how you began to see through your own eyes, and not someone else’s. It was how you began to dig joy out from beneath your cynicism, how you slowly built your desires into form. It was how you learned what you like and don’t, and what you came here to be. The real love story was always how you opened your heart to yourself. After embarking upon her own journey of self-healing over a decade ago, Brianna turned to writing as a way of processing. She has since touched millions with messages of empowerment, self-reflection, and hope.

Other people are not meant to love usin the exact way we think they shouldthey are meant to set up a healing ceremonyat which we learn to love ourselves It feels so real that it makes you believe it will go on forever. It feels so real that you begin to distrust everything you thought you knew before. It wraps itself around your mind until it’s the only thing you can see. All there is to do is accept it, and wait while it gradually eases. Despite your disbelief, will always ease.