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 Mascara, and in today's episode, we are going to talk about loss and love.

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

Okay.

So I once made a post on Instagram that said,

sometimes you have to lose everything to become who you truly are.

Sometimes you have to lose everything to become who you truly are.

Now, this is an extreme expression of love and loss.

As we're realigning our life and things start to fall away,

it's rare that we'll have to lose everything.

But it can often feel like we're losing everything as we go through the journey of reconnection and reopening.

Because the reality is if you built your life on a foundation of fear, self-abandonment, disconnection, other people's ideas,

then there is going to be a shedding that wants to happen as you reconnect to a different energy

that is coming through you.

And so don't be surprised if things start to fall away as you heal and reconnect.

The awakened heart will naturally release what you've only held on to because you didn't know another way to feel

love and safety. Really take that one in. I'm going to say that again, that the awakened heart

will naturally release what you've only held onto because you didn't know another way to feel love and safety.

I mean, I can feel that deep in my bones through my own practice and my own surrender to life.

That as my heart begins to open, as is more safety in my system and a freedom, an inner

freedom that comes from that container of safety, to explore and be me, I can feel the old

layers just naturally beginning to fall away. I don't have to force

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