my jiu jitsu journey through iPhone note entries

Telling yourself stories about all the things you’ve seemingly mended, only to come face-to-face with the harsh realities that these are things that are just a part of your energy body and you oscillate around them over time. It’s not about “healing them so they go away,” no, that’s not what we came here to do. We live with them, and expand. We notice these parts, and they get smaller as we grow awareness of the vast shiny soul that we are.

“Oh Bri, don’t you know it’s the confident ones that fall in?” A tree spirit lovingly mentioned to me as I walked along my favorite waterfall trail in Washington alone on a Sunday morning in 2019. I had done this hike dozens of times, but nature seemed to be speaking very loudly to me today.