Words By: Barbara Symons Podcast, 9
Barbara Symons Author of: Escaping Christianity Finding Christ and Musings From an Ex Christian Fundamentalist Healing comes in layers, and at the deepest layer, we can see that sometimes painful memories shape our present reality. Sort of like the Princess and the Pea story she felt the pain of a small pea so far beneath the layers of her mattresses that it affected her rest. We are the same. We keep things so far buried beneath the layers of our consciousness that sometimes it takes the removal of all of the coverings to discover the pea. In the fairy tale, the prince is searching for his beloved, and only a true princess can feel the pain beneath the mattresses she lay upon. The prince rejoices when he finds a princess who can feel the buried pain, and so they are married. I am learning that pain is there for a reason, and that to navigate through life and relationships, we must not add another layer of mattress to our bed, but rather, our pain
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