Intuitive Voice Recovery is a Process

Second excerpt from Chapter 2

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In Remembrance by Crystal Marie

The Easy Button Doesn’t Exist

Recovery work can be oversimplified in the realm of social media by trendsetters proclaiming that living in freedom to outside approval is an in-your-face attitude or exhibiting deliberately provocative behaviors, mistaking being authentic for a certain style of clothing or wildly colored hair. Those of the self-care ilk tout bubble baths, spa days and manicures as the ultimate sign of well-being. Not to be outdone, the positive mindset movement would have us believe that living in alignment with our core selves is a matter of tuning out any display of emotions not within the “don’t worry, be happy” prescribed formula. A form of mind control that requires us to shut down a vital part of ourselves, dismissing as weakness and negativity the nuanced authentic full range of emotions that is part of the human experience.

Life is hard enough, we want the easy button and will fool ourselves into taking short cuts to get there, erroneously thinking the head knowledge we have learned is the Intuitive Voice. We don’t need to examine it any further, we have work to do! Taking the route of least resistance seldom leads to the kind of wholehearted living and creating from our authentic core we want it to. It simply allows us to bypass any discomfort the inner work of recovery may bring to the surface and reinforces our fracturing of self through denial.

Ignoring the internalized critic messages that tend to pop up around our creative work in this way, we connect to our voice without addressing the scar tissue that our limiting beliefs have caused, creating a type of doublespeak. Not the kind of doublespeak that is deliberately crafted to deceive another person, but in that it is easy to deceive ourselves. This too is a trick utilized to keep us from recognizing our true voice.