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There’s a whole discussion in the writer’s world about whether blocks exist.
”Are they real?”
”Are they in our heads?”
”Can we overcome them?”
I’ve never identified as someone who struggles with writer’s block, but after procrastinating and avoiding for far too long, I’ve written and deleted the words for this podcast several times now.
I have a routine. Writing for me usually happens in a cozy nook of my couch, with a yummy beverage, a pillow on my lap, and an open heart and mind. I trust that what is meant to come through will come through, and it usually does. But sometimes it doesn’t feel like it’s coming.
When I was introduced to Emily I knew immediately that she was a perfect guest for the show. Her vulnerability and wisdom came through right away. I thought the post for her show would come easy, like all the others, but the words she shared intimidated me: abusive relationship, major trauma, bad person, religious upbringing, subconscious blocks…
Who am I? A privileged white girl in a 20 plus year relationship with a loving man and an amazing childhood. Who am I to think I have a story to tell or tools that will help, when women like Emily have earned their warrior badges and know hardship far beyond my own?
But that’s the story. Women like Emily, women like me, and women like you don’t have to have the same stories to be woven into the same webs. We’re here because we share abortion. We’re here because our wombs have held babies whose hands we can’t grip. We’re here, showing up, telling our stories, because we want to make the world a new place, a place where healing follows trauma. A place where we can say the word abortion and open arms, not cans of worms.
What heals one of us has the power to heal us all, but if we are to heal the collective wound of the abortion stigma we have to remember that there might be blocks in our way, blocks that require helpful people and light energy to move. Blocks that only an open heart and mind can shine light on.
We all have a calling in this world. It might be for our own healing, or it might be toward the healing of a whole gender or race. The magnitude of the work is irrelevant and the tools for success are the same- move one little piece at a time until you feel the weight start to shift.
Emily is here with us today as a: Bestselling Author, Spiritual Coach, Energy Healer, Podcast Host, Artist, and self-proclaimed Mega Nerd, and to get here she had subconscious blocks to move. She is proof of what’s possible in so many ways. Before we start our conversation I want to share this excerpt from Emily’s website:
“I am an abuse survivor.
Yep. I was in an abusive relationship for over four years. And, though it may surprise you, I don't actually hate my ex. Don't get me wrong, I don't not hate him either.
I simply nothing him.
I have healed the parts of me that did hate him but more importantly hated me because of what he did.
Because of all of that trauma I was able to discover the process that I currently use to help people uncover their gifts.
So gratitude is given yet credit is actively withheld.”
