Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the process

of growth.

More to come on this in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so in this episode I just want to talk about the tragic nature and beautiful nature

of growing.

The tragic side of it is that in order to step into a new version of ourselves, more empowered

version, a more aligned version, a version that is not dependent on old patterns, trauma

patterns of conditioning for safety, sense of love, in order to really move beyond that

part of us needs to die, a way of being needs to be transformed at the very least, alchemized.

And it doesn't mean that some of the survival strategies we've used in the past don't have

a place moving forward at various points in time, a withdrawal pattern and stress can

be useful in certain situations and contexts.

So it's not like that, those impulses need to be obliterated and die, but the dependence

on those for a particular way of being, that you're most familiar with, that is currently

the way you're operating in the world that needs to die, that needs to be released in

order to make space for new life, and that's painful, right, to really let go of something

that we're associating with our safety is painful.

We don't go through that death process by trying to obliterate it.

There's a way that these things can wilt by showing first love to them and then also

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