From Pain to Potential

There's a certain tug at the heart sometimes that breaks it ever so slightly, in a way that you don't want to be fixed. Pain, in many ways, reminds us that we're alive, we're soft and precious and delicate and here. There's one thing about it, it brings you right back to this moment, to the present, to the now. Unlike joy, which elevates us to the heights, pain brings us crashing down. Reality; the rumble of the earth giving way beneath our feet.

As much as it breaks us, it builds something else. Pain is never just pain, you see. Pain is opportunity, it's possibility, it's potential. Sit with it enough and it will make you move, because pain really only asks one question of us. After the "why mes" and the "how did we

get heres" there really is only one answer that matters --where will you go from here?

-Martina