Martha Trowbridge

As your Spirit flounders in the quagmire of depression, thrash as you do to escape it, often, you are drawn in further.

In these desperate moments, ally with Goodness. Nourish your Spirit with the wholesome energy of trustworthy others, whose lives shine with pure hearts, and good deeds. Seek out the purity of innocent children, and in their presence, be soothed.  Surrender your Spirit to caretaking by The Divine, humbly, honestly asking for the strength to utilize your precious gifts, to finally become The Woman You Were Born To Be.

Dr. Michael Eigen, my cherished mentor, states: “Primary emotional reality is orgasmic ecstasy.” He is thoroughly accurate. The innocence, purity, joy, delight and optimism endowed to each of us at our beginnings, have been robbed by our life’s circumstances.

Yet, no matter what we have endured, we can commence, this very moment, to rebirth into women we were born to be. We can rebirth — rebirth gloriously! Ally your Spirit with Goodness. Magic lies therein.

If you suffer greatly, shame burns within you. Shame about your situation. Shame about your weaknesses. Shame about your failures. As it bristles, sparks and fumes, shame is serving to fuel your sufferings.

That is why, in order to move forever out of and beyond your depression, trauma, grief, or other agony, you must construct within your Inner Universe The Sacred Pillar Of Self-Acceptance.

Self-Acceptance begins when you recognize with all your heart, with all your mind, and in every cell of your body, that your present state-of-Spirit does not result from your weakness, defect, foolishness, fault or doing. The simple fact is: overwhelming stressors have overwhelmed you. Absorb this fully, and frame your sufferings as urgent messages from your Spirit, as her cries for your loving, empathic attentions.

Blame, regret, rumination, rage, self-reproach — now is not the appropriate time to face these. At least for the present time, put them aside. Devote your full attention to your suffering Spirit, upon resuscitating and revitalizing Her.

As you learn to genuinely accept your self, in all your woundedness, you construct The Sacred Pillar Of Self-Acceptance within you. The first and foremost post to hold on to, as you move from your sufferings toward glorious rebirth as The Woman You Were Born To Be, The Sacred Pillar Of Self-Acceptance is luminous, stalwart, reliable — and breathtakingly lovely.

To all my fellow women who suffer emotional, mental, and Spirit-ual agonies: blessings and prayers. Welcome to my inspiration blog! It exists solely for women like you - women in crisis. Please know that I too have suffered deeply, as a child, and as an adult victim of violence. I sincerely hope you find solace in my words, and that through them your precious, oh-so-sacred Spirit revitalizes its weary self. Here’s to your wondrous rebirth into The Woman You Were Born To Be!