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 Miscara. In today's episode, we're going to talk about why

breaking down often leads to growth. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So, we're going to frame this episode with a poem by Danielle Dobie.

She writes,

The breaking leads to opening.

The opening allows expansion.

The expansion creates more space.

The space invites growth in.

So notice if you can feel that poem and the truth of that, the breaking leads to opening.

Let's try and look at that more closely.

So if you, maybe you're experiencing right now, or I've just known the experience of breaking,

breaking down, just what that is like when we're brought to our knees, something in us

cracks, the compensation we do to get throughout the day to hold ourselves together to keep ourselves

guarded and in control just shatters and we're just lost we feel broken but if we can allow ourselves to be in that space and really be present for it, not immediately fight it.

And usually if we get to that breaking point, this is inevitable.

Something in us opens.

And it comes because we're no longer, we can't control anymore.

We can't protect anymore. All of our usual defense mechanisms or survival mechanisms, they've just, again, out the door. And so the only thing that's left is an opening and so that opening allows

expansion do you know that feeling right just something in us softens almost as if we were carrying

a hundred pound weight up a mountain and then we get to the top and we just

release that weight so much of our trying to control and figure out and be in charge and

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