I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.
I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.
I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
I don't think there is anything unusual about my struggle. It's a very typical struggle where you meet bad people, and then you meet good people, and then you finally have a breakthrough.
I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.