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3. SYNC: Find Yourself Through Others In the Sync phase, something widens. The desire to connect with others on similar paths begins to pour into the energetic space carved out by your healing and learning, and your journey transforms from solitary to shared. Here, you re-access that primal truth that holds two realities at RQFH We are one, and we are distinct. We need each other to fully re- turn to ourselves. In community, you hear your truth echoing in some- RQHHOVH¶VVWRU\DQGUHFRJQL]HWKHLQWHUFRQQHFWLRQZKLOHVLPXOWDQH - ously noticing how uniquely that story lives within you. This is how WKDWVDFUHGNQRZLQJGHHSHQV WKURXJKGLDORJXHWKURXJKZLWQHVVLQJ WKHVDPHKHDOLQJXQIROGGL̆ HUHQWO\LQGL̆ HUHQWERGLHVDQGWKURXJK the sharpening that happens when your experience meets another’s. &RPPXQLW\GRHVQ¶WEOXU\RXUHGJHV LWKHOSV\RX¿QGWKHP This is when group practice becomes essential — not as education, but as crucible. These types of containers — ceremonies, meditation sanghas, ancestor circles, training cohorts, coven meetings — hold the paradox you’ve just remembered, allowing intellectual understanding WR WUDQVIRUP LQWR OLYHG H[SHULHQFH <RX VWDUW WR UHFRJQL]H KRZ \RXU healing echoes through the group while remaining distinctly, irreduc- ibly yours. 4. SUSTAIN: Integrate the Change $QGWKHQFRPHVWKH¿QDOWXUQRIWKHVSLUDO — the phase that simul- taneously marks an end and a beginning; the phase where you stop thinking about your healing and start being your healing. Sustaining involves the intentional practice of letting the healing change you, allowing it to show up in how you move through the world. It’s about operating in your reality informed by those deep shifts rath- HUWKDQFRPSDUWPHQWDOL]LQJWKHPDV³WKDWWKLQJ,H[SHULHQFHGLQFHUH - mony” or “that insight I had in therapy.” 7KLVPLJKWORRNOLNHDGDLO\SUDFWLFHWKDWGLGQ¶WH[LVWEHIRUH OLJKW - ing a candle each morning and checking in with your body before the day begins; or setting boundaries that honor your energy in ways you couldn’t have articulated six months ago; o UUHFRJQL]LQJWKHPRPHQW anxiety rises in your chest and having the tools — breath, movement, grounding, compassion — to meet it rather than be overtaken by it. Sustaining is the healing living in your choices, your rhythms, your way of being. 7KLVSKDVHDVNVYXOQHUDEOHTXHVWLRQV How does this healing want to live through me? What practices sustain this new way of being? How do I anchor these insights when life gets chaotic again? As those of us who’ve been around this spiral a few times know, this degree of HPERGLPHQWUHTXLUHVGLVFHUQPHQW<RXOHDUQWROLVWHQWRZKDW\RXU own system needs, not what you think it should need. Look for practitioners who can walk alongside you as you create the awareness and structures to become your own guide. A good guide of- fers suggestions; a great one helps you develop awareness of the struc- tures that are most aligned to your rhythms — mentoring, integration coaching, accountability partnerships, and development of new prac- tices that support your transformed way of being. And yet, as profound as this Sustaining work is, it’s not the end. When The Spiral Continues (Because Of Course It Does) It would be lovely to assume the journey ends with this sustaining work of integration, to tie it up with a bow, declare ourselves healed, and move on with our lives. Except that’s not how this works.
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