“I’ve hit rock bottom” one might say.
This kind of statement usually means that they have come to a difficult place in life that might feel like a dead end. No outlet in sight.
Unlike that of being “caught between a rock and a hard place” might feel like less of a challenge than hitting rock bottom.
Once you figure out how to wiggle out from the hard place and roll the rock away then you can move forward. Right? Seems a bit easier to find a way out from between two difficult choices.
Reaching a place of rock bottom might bring a feeling of hopelessness. It might seem like all aspects of one’s life have stopped.
What’s a person to do?
What if rock bottom was not a dead end?
What if that hard surface you sit on could actually help you move forward?
What if rock bottom was the chance you needed to reinvent your life and become a version of yourself that you were afraid to embrace?
“What version of myself?” you might ask.
The deeply authentic version of yourself. The version of yourself that is confident and unwavering in your wholeness. That version of yourself.
Hitting rock bottom could be the springboard you needed.
The hard surface of this place will not give you an extraordinary lift. You will not be able to jump over the challenges and catapult into the stratosphere of reinventing oneself. However, that is good.
When we move too fast, we missed the process because we are anxious to get to a polished product. Nothing can be properly polished or fully formed when we rush the process.
The hard surface will allow for a solid reinvention of life as we knew it. Nothing in this process will be missed. There will be a deep grounded transformation.
Through erosion of what hasn’t worked for you and the slow movement through the process, like tectonic plates, that is where your springboard begins.
Rock bottom could be the best thing that has ever happened to you.
Here’s to reinvention and the process of grounding oneself in the beauty of wholeness.
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