Compassionate Wonder

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

― Socrates

Wonder is the start to an empowering journey that leads to healing.

When you start looking at yourself with a curious mind rather than a critical one, you start to gain insight and understanding of yourself. When you start to open up your feelings you unearth your roots.

This is where you store your trauma, your pain, your guilt, shame, doubt. All of the reasons why you feel what you feel rest here. This is the place that you can begin to heal!

Start by validating your trauma, & your experiences, validate your pain, and then validate all of the things you needed to do to survive this. Start to look at yourself with wonder and compassion in moments of shame & doubt. Begin a narrative to dispute the malicious thoughts inside your head. Exchange these thoughts with compassionate wonder.

The Spiral

“I just completely went off on family because I felt like my world was crumbling, I do everything around here, no one appreciates me! I am a terrible mother and wife. They are better off without me, they deserve someone that is stable & does not explode. I am hopeless I am a burden, I am not worth love I will be ALONE”

Compassionate Wonder Thinking to Dispute The Spiral!

There is a reason I feel what I am feeling. My feeling and pain is valid right now. It does not make me broken or a bad person.

I don't like that I do this & I want to stop. I wonder WHY I am doing this. What am I feeling right now? What am I afraid of? What do I think will happen at this moment? What do I think will make me feel better or what do I need right now?

what happened to me to cause me to internalize myself to the point where I explode. What do I need right now? What areas in my life do I lack support?

This narrative practices compassionate wonder and can help our brain start to find patterns and reasoning. When we understand the WHY we can start to understand how to rewire our brain into positive thinking patterns!

Open your mind to the possibility that we are all unique and meant to walk our own paths. That perfection is an illusion we create and emphasize internally. Exploring your mind and body with wonder is empowering and will help you heal wounds and make lasting changes.

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein