The Ones Who Know - The Ones Who Have Loved Through Pain

If you have ever felt profoundly alone in a room full of people, given more than you've received, stayed strong when you needed someone to be strong for you, or walked away from something you loved because you believed your presence was causing more pain than your absence would, this meditation was made for you.

The Ones Who Know is a gentle, deeply affirming guided meditation for people who have experienced significant pain and carry it with a quiet, invisible strength.

It explores the qualities that suffering develops in a person, the empathy, the vigilance, the walls that protected you, the independence that kept you standing, and the search for meaning that never quite lets you rest, and holds all of them with the honesty and tenderness they deserve. You don't need to be fixed. You need to be seen.

Reviews

Thank you 🙏🏻 I can relate to this and you helped me understand why I do what I do
I figure it’s their lesson to learn

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Gary, your compassion and empathy radiated through your words in a way that felt like a warm arm around the shoulder of the 36 year old me 🫂, which catalysed a release I suspected was coming just by reading the title of this post. I ugly cried out the grief I have been carrying from those insanely hard times. A grief that sits in the pain my body nurses.

Showing up. Day in. Day out. The relentless, never ending grind of the parenting trenches, the relief from which was years away. The weight was so heavy at times that ending life seemed like a viable exit strategy that was thankfully overridden by the determination to not condemn my babies to a future without me.

I share many of the common denominators you covered. I had to box up and lock the hurt and pain otherwise I could not have shown up for those two very small humans who were depending on me for life. I had to pretend I was ok. I had to show I was strong, capable, enough … I was those things but also on the inside I was embers of a flame I used to be.

I feel touched, seen, in a way that is profound.

I have been in recovery mode for years. May I now allow my nervous system to finally, rest! May I finally flourish rather than merely survive.

I am incredibly grateful you popped up in my Insight Timer feed. Life has been listening to my silent pleas and delivered a goodness I have needed for a long time. I am blessed. Thank you 🙏🏼