Some people just make you feel safe to be you. Rare souls who sweep in and uncover pieces that were lost along the way. Each of these divine encounters reveals hidden treasure inside of you – and once in a while, you have the honor to do the same for them. 

Sometimes it’s easy to re-remember these parts of you. You see the beauty you had once lost. You are overjoyed to have found it once again. 

Other times the things exposed are messier, ways in which you coped that no longer work, masks that you slipped on that never quite fit. 

Both types of unveiling – the welcome and the unwelcome – matter in a hero’s journey. For without awareness of our deepest truths, we remain stagnant. Going through the motions but never really moving. Both the light and the dark are sacred to the human experience.

I don’t know where the journey will take me. Nor do I know that I can ever uncover it all – at least not in this lifetime. But I do hope that eventually, I can learn to become one of these people for myself. For really the safety revealed was within me all along.