Martha Trowbridge Blog

If you suffer greatly, shame burns within you. Shame about your situation. Shame about your weaknesses. Shame about your failures. As it bristles, sparks and fumes, shame is serving to fuel your sufferings.

That is why, in order to move forever out of and beyond your depression, trauma, grief, or other agony, you must construct within your Inner Universe The Sacred Pillar Of Self-Acceptance.

Self-Acceptance begins when you recognize with all your heart, with all your mind, and in every cell of your body, that your present state-of-Spirit does not result from your weakness, defect, foolishness, fault or doing. The simple fact is: overwhelming stressors have overwhelmed you. Absorb this fully, and frame your sufferings as urgent messages from your Spirit, as her cries for your loving, empathic attentions.

Blame, regret, rumination, rage, self-reproach — now is not the appropriate time to face these. At least for the present time, put them aside. Devote your full attention to your suffering Spirit, upon resuscitating and revitalizing Her.

As you learn to genuinely accept your self, in all your woundedness, you construct The Sacred Pillar Of Self-Acceptance within you. The first and foremost post to hold on to, as you move from your sufferings toward glorious rebirth as The Woman You Were Born To Be, The Sacred Pillar Of Self-Acceptance is luminous, stalwart, reliable — and breathtakingly lovely.

To all my fellow women who suffer emotional, mental, and Spirit-ual agonies: blessings and prayers. Welcome to my inspiration blog! It exists solely for women like you - women in crisis. Please know that I too have suffered deeply, as a child, and as an adult victim of violence. I sincerely hope you find solace in my words, and that through them your precious, oh-so-sacred Spirit revitalizes its weary self. Here’s to your wondrous rebirth into The Woman You Were Born To Be!