Oprah referred to them as “pull-up moments” in a recent podcast, moments that take you by surprise or rock you to your core, but ultimately pull you up into another deeper part of yourself so now you understand things differently and more clearly.

I am grateful for awakenings like this. The circumstance may hurt like hell, but afterwards there is this knowledge--not so new because it is something I have always known, but new in the sense that it is now something I have finally learned to accept.

I have personally found all of this to be true. Accepting, leaning in, opening to discomfort/pain and uncertainty help it to move through me. It’s a process that requires being alone in silence, allowing the time needed for transmutation.