Bindings

This is macrame rope – it can be used creatively for beautiful pieces of art, it can be used functionally for things like plant hangers, and it can be used as strong binding. 

And that had me thinking that our life experiences are quite the same. 

Take heartache for example. 

You might write your painful emotions into breathtaking poetry – the kind that reveals a corner of your soul that’s been unseen and untouched for so long.

And suddenly you’ve rediscovered pieces of yourself you once thought were lost in the woods. 

You might use your heartache functionally to study and practice new ways of being with yourself and others. Learning from patterns and mistakes. “Analyze, synthesize, apply.” Preparing you to go forward with more wisdom than before. 

And then there’s heartache as binding. 

The grief and exhaustion that gives you no choice but to sit still and BE with your experience. To fully FEEL the waves of emotions, rather than fleeing from them.

The heartache that becomes so big you think you are falling apart, yet the binding guides you to fall into place.

Before you know it you’ve learned to allow the bind to work on you. To give you the gift of healing. 

And eventually you will reach a point when that binding has completed its job… but you may find you’re still hanging on to the knots.

Still finding yourself tangled up. Making meaning of why you’re bound, without seeing that you hold both ends of the rope – and that you can open your hand to let it go. 

Neither macrame rope, nor heartache, nor most of our experiences are inherently good or bad, right or wrong, they are just material for us to make use of. 

Material that can support us. Material that can grow us. Material that can free us. 

We may not get to choose all of our experiences, but we have the power to choose what we do with the experiences we’re given.  

If you’re ready to unbind yourself and start transforming your wounds and perceived weaknesses into art, function, and growth, I’m here to support you.