One of the hardest things to learn how to do is to simply be present with people and their pain… To allow pain to just be… To refrain from trying to change pain, or fix pain, or erase pain, or escape, forget, or relieve pain… But instead to simply and powerfully bear witness to a person moving through pain, surviving pain, embracing pain, and discovering for themselves – their own ability to bear it, to heal it, to discover its lessons, and to evolve into the unique awakenings that can only occur as a result of learning how to transmute and transform pain into something beautiful, and strong, and brave, and free.
