In Apuleius's myth of Cupid and Psyche, we see a perfect example of the Hero's Journey described by Joseph Campbell. The story follows the journey of Psyche, a beautiful mortal woman who captures the heart of Cupid, the god of love. However, their love is forbidden, and Psyche must undertake a series of trials to prove herself worthy of Cupid's love. The story begins with Psyche's introduction as a beautiful mortal woman who is so beautiful that she is compared to Venus, the goddess of beauty.

Atul Gawande's book, Being Mortal, explores how people can live with their conditions and age-related frailty while still making emotionally vital healthcare decisions for themselves. Gawande argues that healthcare providers should show their patients respect and dignity at the end of their lives, contributing to substantial medical advancements and respect for personalized autonomy.

I consider myself an idealist because I believe everyone should have the opportunity to make decisions based on their principles and goals toward their heart’s desire, but also with consideration of mutual autonomy in place. When it comes to misogyny, it is typically from a place of distrust or a lack of confidence that one may feel they are lacking or not equipped with compared to what another person may have, fostering the illusion they are not “good enough.”

The above video clip is honestly the best way I've ever heard depression explained. I literally dipped off the grid for 16 years at one point, and it felt like "society" didn't even notice. In moments of willing isolation, I realized I was just an avatar in someone else's game, and that drove me to shut down entirely and check out "this life."

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So where do we go from here? Just like that, all of the hard work we put in and the energy it takes to go through the shadow work to heal, old traumas of childhood memories float their way back in for us to dwell on.

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Emotionally savvy is how one operates in public, and emotionally smart one quickly adapts to an unexpected change; emotionally intelligent conceptualizes all experience into useful data for others to use. Simultaneously, emotionally wise is allowing our emotions to show praise and gratitude to its source consciousness.

Do you know what real love is? That type of love that yearns to protect and nurture regardless of the life it chooses? Love that harnesses a desire to hold our passions, secrets, and wishes, in love with the self of someone else, watching that love drift off to nowhere, hoping each day the one you truly trust is open enough to share this awareness and finds you.

Emotional rebirths are meant to wake us to a new beginning, not erase the past, fix our physical experiences or alter our “mistakes”,” which are our truths. The ego will always know this experience has to occur when we confront our conditioning into its consciousness, and this knowledge will allow the freedom to be aware.

All paths unseen does not mean to avoid, no more than those already accomplished means to follow, but rather a sign of faith to face one's fears, so that one can begin to exceed past comfort zones and social limitations. This life is our free will, and our participation in trusting the Universes lessons is what will propel and transform this existence into our legacy.

“They can anticipate and respond effectively. More than just awareness of what is already happening, emotionally intelligent people often can predict what is going to happen by reading the emotional content of those they interact with. This can be anything from anticipating awful news to someone quitting in the workplace. This gives the emotionally intelligent person the ability to respond more effectively to situations as they occur as opposed to continually reacting, putting them in control.”

“Marriage doesn't take away our loneliness. To be alive is to be lonely. It's the human condition. Marriage doesn't change the human condition. It can't make us completely unlonely. And when it doesn't, we blame our partner for doing something wrong, or we go searching for companionship elsewhere. Marriage is intended to be a place where two humans share the experience of loneliness and, in the sharing, create moments in which the loneliness dissipates. For a little while.”

I believe insensitive and kind men. I believe in the mystical men who believe in themselves. I believe in men who seek temperance and peace inside them. I believe in men poets, dreamers, magicians, writers, alchemists, artists, teachers, and angels.

“The beauty of bonding & binding was to show respect to the relationship, not subordinate to your spouse. In turn, this creates the emotional byproduct of the distorted masculine, serving only the ego through flesh and toys. The latter would be the divine masculine who sees that they can control, but this would serve no purpose to their deepest desires.”

Message from the Soul to the Inner Child :

So I just had my moment of realization that I use to take help or suggestions as an attack on my ego, and I would lash out or shut others down for wanting to help us. I would then pray for more understanding, friends, and tribe, and then when we got them, I would push them away for thinking the thought they may know more than I knew of ourselves.