SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

When Your Emotional Wreckage Turns Out to Be a Training Montage

Or: Why All Spiritual Revelations Happen on Kitchen Floors

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Dea Devidas
Feb 10, 2025
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There comes a moment when you realize your deepest defeats were actually initiations into a secret society of people who survived their own nervous systems. You know that instant when you’re lying on your kitchen floor (because somehow all major breakthroughs happen on floors... nobody ever has a revelation standing upright like a functional adult), and suddenly it hits you: those relationships that felt like getting your entire system caught in a paper shredder? They were your Harvard of Hard Knocks, teaching you how to transmute emotional lead into actual capacity.

Your bones have been keeping score this whole time. Every survival is recorded in your tissue. Every time you chose yourself when choosing yourself felt like dying... your marrow remembers. Your cells have been writing the curriculum your mind is only now beginning to read.

And because the Field has an impeccable sense of dramatic timing, of course this revelation arrives when you’re at your most undone. If your life was wr…

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