Unbroken Wholeness
Unbroken wholeness begins with ourselves. We are told we are broken, not enough, not thin enough, too short, too loud, that we have a diagnosis and we hold that as evidence that we are broken.
But what if we are not broken?
What if you are not broken?
What if your child isn’t broken?
What if that’s not true?
This isn’t about denial of real challenges or problems. But this is about widening our viewpoint, looking at the larger patterns and systems that keep us feeling broken. What if what we’re seeing and experiencing is the micro of the macro, the piece of a much larger picture of what’s happening that we’ve been taught not to look at? It’s a lie that we aren’t all connected, that “it” doesn’t matter, that you don’t matter. Each and every one of us matters and are needed.
One person is not inherently better than another.
We all need clean air, clean water, a place to shelter, food that nourishes us, and to feel we are not the only one. We all need someone to listen to us, to see us, to feel us. This is what it means to be human. We have been taught implicitly and explicitly that we are valuable when we are smart, when we can solve problems, when we can contribute, when we are able bodied. The metrics there fall short of what I see is important. Can we work together? Can we take care of ourselves and each other? Can we listen? Can we be with one another? Can we give? Can we receive?
What if the feelings of brokenness is a symptom of larger systems that don’t work? What if these symptoms are our bodies telling us that we are in a culture that does not work for us to embrace our full humanity? Square peg in a round hole. And we need to be more creative, more expansive in the way we conceptualize this human experience. And that begins with you. And it begins with me.
It begins with curiosity about what’s happening without labels. Zoom out. What do your symptoms tell you about what you need? We are not separate. What happens to one of us happens to all of us.
All of the chemicals we put into the world end up in amniotic fluid and breast milk and into the babies of the world. Not just of the people you know, but of all people.
What we do to the planet, we do to ourselves.
It is time for all of us to see what we’ve been told that is broken in us is a symptom that we’ve forgotten we’re all connected, that we’re in human bodies that need care and that tell us what we need through our symptoms. And it isn’t just what we as an individual needs, it’s what we all need.
We must work together if we are going to survive this time in history. We must reject the lie that were broken and that the world is evil. See the evil. And orient back to each other. The world needs you and your unique gifts, your quirks, your humor.
It’s time to see our unbroken wholeness.
