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When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?

Almost everything is multisided – including the occurrences that give us pain.  So, we asked some of the most enlightened folks in the community to share how they have harnessed their pain to help rather than hurt them

Erika Ristovski

When I came out of the spiritual closet and I decided to start sharing my experiences with others, it helps others in their journey. I have come out speaking about a lot of things, like growing up in a dysfunctional family, having a narcissistic mother and relationship dynamics to sharing my experiences with entities and aliens. Read more>>

Snowy Rodeo

There came a point in my journey where I stopped hiding my pain. I stopped pretending I was “okay” just to make others comfortable. I stopped bypassing my own grief to stay strong, spiritual, or put together. Instead, I let myself feel—messy, raw, honest emotion. And in that surrender, I found my power. Read more>>

Omar Barnhart

I can think of two big parts of my life that used to weigh heavy on me: growing up with a mother who battled paranoid schizophrenia and manic depression, and coming of age as a closeted gay kid convinced that being different was something to hide. Both shaped how I moved through the world — quiet, watchful, trying to stay small. But now? Read more>>

 

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