Serenity Room: Embracing the Struggle
A powerful parable about recovery: like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, your struggles make you stronger. Embrace the process of transformation.
Trauma HealingThe New Colossus
Emma Lazarus 1883
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
That statue and those words have symbolized hope and freedom for millions of people the world over. Symbols are important because they help us create a vision of what life can be, a vision that we follow until we transcend our current circumstances and transform our spirit into a new freedom.
If you are building that kind of freedom, read The Serenity Room and Serenity Self-Care.
What is your symbol for freedom?
