{"id":771,"date":"2019-06-23T01:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butterflyeffectscounseling.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2019-07-22T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:14:38","slug":"auto-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/butterflyeffectscounseling.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"At the precipice, we change."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/875\/0*_EB_acCls5yx-eIw\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other day I walked into the living room and on the television was the movie, The Day the Earth Stood <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace gr-progress sel\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">S<\/g>till, the remake with Keanu Reeves. I remember I didn\u2019t go see it when it came out, after getting panned by the critics. I sat on the couch, not really watching the show, but a singular line from the movie grabbed my attention. <strong>\u201cAt the <g class=\"gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"12\" data-gr-id=\"12\">precipice<\/g> we change\u201d. <\/strong>This struck me as profound. I have been sitting with what this really means, especially now, on a macro level when we are living in a world facing catastrophic issues like global warming, growing nationalism, nuclear proliferation, hunger, and poverty. And I began to wonder what has this meant for me personally and what is it that has been the impetus for change in my own life? Have I needed to be confronted with dire circumstances in order to create personal change or have I done so willingly and with some measure of grace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Certainly, as a therapist working in the field of trauma and\naddiction, I have seen plenty of instances where despite the unimaginable consequences\nthat can result from our behaviors, change does not come easily. Someone\nstruggling with heroin addiction who continues to use despite dying multiple\ntimes and needing to be revived by Narcan. Or the person with a lung cancer diagnosis\nwho continues to smoke. Even now, in my own life, as I struggle yet again with\nmy use of sugar as a coping strategy, knowing full well the potential long-term\nnegative outcomes, it continues to be hard to stop. These though are easier to comprehend;\naddictions hijack the brain\u2019s reward circuitry often rendering our best\nintentions futile. But we do this in so many other areas of our life as well.\nWe know what we may need to do at work or in our personal relationships to avoid\nbeing fired or prevent the demise of a beloved relationship, but those changes\ncan feel insurmountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps too there are gradations on the road to our precipice\nand how quickly or slowly we heed the warning, or even if we ever do at all. I\ncertainly have heard stories of people surviving near death situations who completely\nchange their lives. Their brush with mortality bringing with it a deeper\nunderstanding of the things in life that hold value and importance. The recognition\nthat our time on this earth is limited and we will run out of chances to\nchange. The research done with those at the end of their lives show some\nuniversal truths around what matters. Our relationships, how we spend our time,\nhow we show up and be present in our lives and our ability to cultivate a sense\nof purpose and meaning seem to be where we carry most of our regrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of asking myself if I would change at the precipice,\nI wish instead my life was lived being informed by this inevitability. The\nprecipice will come. I imagine I would live my life in such a way that I were\nmore ready for this eventuality. Each breath measured not in years, but in\nmoments where I was able to show up more fully to the unfolding of my life. Welcoming\nwhat is without judgment and increasing my capacity to hold the paradox of our\nfragile human condition- that to truly understand the infinite beauty of the\nlight, we must also be willing to embrace the darkness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live in a world that encourages us to stay on this never-ending quest to maintain near constant states happiness and self-fulfillment. We chase all the outside things we imagine will keep the darkness at bay and far from our consciousness. We seek to create the illusion of the perfect life, post it all to social media as if we believed that if we could attain enough likes we could escape the precipice altogether. But it is the very knowledge of the precipice that has the power to save us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read a recent article on climate change, alarming in its\npredictions. The author concluding, like so many other scientists have, that it\nis very possible we are at the precipice of human survival. As we face global\ncatastrophic suffering as a result of climate change due to our tragic\ninability to make those needed changes, we choose instead to continue to turn a\ncollective blind eye to the impending crisis. Our insatiable desire to fix what\nis broken in us, the hole inside so vast we are willing to fill it with the\nvery things that will keep us from what matters most. The quest for money and\npower will never heal what hurts us most. We stay on the desperate path of\nfinding things to mask and cover our deepest wounds. We pollute our bodies and we\nheap more and more trash onto our aching souls. Greed becomes the poison we\ntake, erroneously thinking it will save us. Like heroin in our veins, the\nrelief is only temporary as it kills the organism it relies upon for its very\nsurvival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crisis of climate change is, at the end of the day, the\nstory of what it means to be human. Do we begin the arduous task of turning\ninward, bravely assessing the damage we have done and choosing to believe that we\nare indeed capable of lovingly and fiercely committing to this process of offering\nunconditional love, to ourselves and indeed to all of humanity? When we are faced\nwith the precipice, what will we choose? The time is now. We are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I walked into the living room and on the television was the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake with Keanu Reeves. I remember I didn\u2019t go see it when it came out, after getting panned by the critics. 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