Loneliness of our deep soul is an essential part of healing..this is a fairly popular post that obviously resonated and I am resharing.
The path of recovery is in many ways a path of shedding. We release old beliefs, we see through illusions, we discover patterns, we come to understand those we thought were friends were really not, we face ealier loneliness in our soul that before we covered over with addictions. My therapist Kat often reminds me how lonely this kind of psychological work can be and as I see others struggle, too I know I am not alone although on some of the darker days as my followers know I find myself like Dante in the middle of a deep dark wood. And yet in that wood there are trees and grass and lot of other critters. There may be a little wooden shack with a fire I can light and twigs. There like the maiden without hands from a fairytale I may have been led to grow my own feeling…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 