CON T D . BY T AMM I SCOT T
You showed up as unconditionally accepting communal love. You saw me in my brokenness, my desperation, my deep sense of unworthiness and insecurity. And still, you embraced me within a circle of recovering women! I was hugged. I was held. I was seen, I was acknowledged and gently pulled into belonging. It was profoundly moving, absolutely wondrous, and utterly terrifying. I knew you, Love, were real but how could I trust you based on my personal experiences growing up? Everything I knew of you was performative and transactional. Yet for Alcoholics Anonymous all I had to do was show up, like myself. Something I distrusted and tested for years, even as I kept "coming back" as they told me to. Fortunately, the indefatigable patience and love of community helped me find you within me. You helped me replace my pain, shame, unworthiness and loneliness with safety, acceptance and belonging. First to the community and then to myself. So maybe the question now is, when will I allow you to deepen, allow my connection to others to deepen, allow emotional intimacy to deepen? I mean that's better than if, isn't it?
Tammi Scott currently works as a mild-mannered insurance adjuster by day who is planning early retirement to build a life that honours her soul path of openhearted growth, healing and healthy, meaningful connection. This includes her work on the leadership team of a sober support community called The Luckiest Club where she facilitates two meetings a week and helps provide online community support. She is a writer and a certified yoga teacher who focuses on Karmic yoga which concerns itself with duty, right action and social justice. She is an empty- nester who lives in a rural mountain town in Southern California. She got clean and sober in 1996. You can follow or reach the fabulous Tammi here: Email: talychde@gmail.com Her blog: Build Your Own Brave Instagram: Tammi Scott (@queeniet_) • Instagram photos and videos Facebook business page: Ever Inward | Facebook
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