When Psychology Fails, What Then?

I decided a while ago to look at age as levels instead of years. It makes it more fun, doesn’t it? Instead of being 46, I’ve now reached level 46. If I were to live to 100, it’s a respectable level to get to, but not so much so that there isn’t more to learn or to grow from. So as you can imagine, my lovelies, at this level I’ve got some interesting life travel observations to impart. And I call them “observations” because I am bearing witness to life, I am not deciding for others what wisdom is, or impeding life’s flow, nor am I telling others how to live. I believe that each of us has to walk our own path and find what brings us peace and wholeness. And so, I will only share my own experience, in this moment in time, at level 46, with the deep knowing that my human mind may limit my ability to fully express the intangible knowledge within my soul. That got deep, quickly, eh? Ok, shaking that off, now :)

More than our minds

We live in a world that values science, logic, reason and the individual. At level 20, I too found comfort in these things. Knee-deep in my first major depression, I turned to psychology for help. I had no idea at that time that I was suffering through a flashback from early childhood trauma and that this is what had landed me in that dark place. I didn’t know that depression was part of my spiritual journey to developing…