I don't have to be able to be defined by guidelines.

I can be it all.

I can hold it all.

I can experience all.

And in fact, you are meant to.

Hi, I'm Kayla Rose, the podcast host of Skin Dipping.

And this is the season of reclaiming wholeness.

Why reclaiming wholeness?

And you may have seen that title and you're like,

reclaiming wholeness, what does that even mean?

Well, we're going to get into it today.

Don't worry, because the truth is I am the type of person that pushed away so many parts of

myself and I would lock that part up in the closet and I would say you can't come out right now.

You can't come out because I need to be perfect and I need to show myself and others and the world and my parents

and my family and my friends that I have it all together. So I'm going to lock those parts

away in the closet that I don't want to acknowledge. And let me tell you it didn't get me anywhere.

It got me to a place where I was bubbling up with emotion and it would come out in anger or overwhelm or overstimulation

because I wasn't allowing myself to fully reclaim all parts of myself.

The neutral aspects, the light aspects, the shadowy aspects.

And reclaiming wholeness is really about showing up and being

like i'm not judging any part of myself anymore i refuse to judge the parts of myself that i used to

want to hide the angry parts of myself the grieving parts of myself the uncomfortable the embarrassed the shameful parts of myself, the grieving parts of myself, the uncomfortable, the embarrassed, the shameful

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