It’s taken me a couple of days to write this Journey as it represents a particular aspect of my personal Journey that is not the easiest point to traverse and involves some really deep work on Self.  We all have these times in our lives, where we need to step back, take a deep breath, and try to work out how we got to this place and what our journey into our future might look like.  This is a time to look within to seek the answers to questions you may not even know you hold.

This quiet time of reflection is where we can pull out all the jigsaw pieces, lay them on the ground in front of us, and start to rebuild the picture of our life.  It is a time, in the work on Self, where we can feel vulnerable because those jigsaw pieces are most likely not just the pretty, happy, joyful things we have experienced.  They also represent the hard parts; the bits we wish had not happened; the pieces of our Self we hold that are fearful, guilt-ridden, and just plain messy. 

We need this time of pulling within, seeking shelter in the deepest parts of our Self, where we can look at our lives with honest eyes and mind, but also know that we are safe and protected from the outside world.  This is the time we discover what makes us fearful, and we can seek a way to understand, to stand up to or even remove that source of fear.

By looking deep within Self, we create a place where we can find the answers the questions we may, or may not, know that we need to ask.  It is a place of reflection, peace and above all, safety.  Our personal Sanctuary.