Balance and equilibrium don’t come from avoiding the hard stuff. The material that’s more challenging to feel. The fear, the shame, the doubt, the self-invalidation. The feelings that feel anything but “centered”, anything but “enlightened”, anything but “pure”. You may feel dialed in, like things are coming together inside and out, and yet there could still be something waiting in the shadows to come forward. Parts of us can be afraid to allow what needs to surface to come t