In my coaching work, I’ve had many clients who said they can’t do what they want because that’ll upset their parents.
They tell nightmare scenarios of how their parents, husbands, friends - basically how everyone - will be upset if they do what they want.
While there might be some truth to this story, in most cases, the nightmare is blown out of proportion.
Once the clients embrace their fear and tell their parents the truth, they’re often surprised by their parents’ ability to understand.
I think this is the key: liberation. 🙌
Liberation doesn’t always feel like happiness, not even peace.
Liberation sometimes feels like burning, like destruction, like darkness, like pain.
How the phoenix liberates itself from its old shell, to be reborn again.
When we’re in the burn of liberation, we need to remind ourselves that the only way out is through. We endure. All of us. We bear the unbearable.
And one day - later than we hope for, but sooner than we expect - we’ll emerge from the darkness, like a baby from her mother’s womb: tired, and messy, and crying, and utterly - utterly glorious. ✨
---
💛 Excerpt from my blog "Is It Selfish to Follow Your Heart?"
👉 Read full article here: https://milenanguyen.com/blog/2020/2/27/is-it-selfish-to-follow-your-heart
