Embracing the Beauty in Adversity

29th October 2024 Written by Dvonne Loring

Much of my content speaks to the experiences that often go unspoken

When you feel stuck or torn

When you’re unsure or indecisive

When you’ve fallen between two worlds

When confusion and procrastination overwhelm you

When things didn’t work out as you’d wished, hoped or dreamed

When you’re waiting in the excruciatingly empty

When you’re haunted by the lack of answers

My content speaks to when you’re in the heavier, denser realms of the human experience

To the suffering that exists under your high functioning life

To the tribulations and experiences found within the dark night of the soul

The experiences that lie within the Heroine’s journey as you find your way

I write to capture what is real and gritty to remind you that this, too, can be meaningful

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We often only showcase the pinnacle and the outcomes once we have arrived

Yet we don’t often see what it has taken to get there

The hardship

The breaking down

The slow rise after a fall

The licking of your wounds

The questioning your strength

The undercurrent of your insecurities

The digging deep

The mistakes

Even regret

When we don’t speak to the plight that is inherent in anything worthwhile, we can be left feeling deeply alone

When we don’t hear our experiences echoed or see ourselves in others’ stories, it has a deeply isolating effect

Shame often weaves itself into these kinds of experiences

And shame has a way of finding its home in the dark and silenced spaces

I write to validate these experiences that we all navigate over and over throughout our lives

It is a noble struggle and we can learn a lot from what goes wrong

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Life doesn’t stop when you’re in these phases, stages, seasons or chapters, even if it feels that way

Life continues

And these moments that feel like “they’re in the way” are stewarding you more fiercely to the very path that is uniquely yours

“This is what you’ve been running from and toward at the same time” - Branden Collinsworth

My writing is an invitation to learn how to love the symphony of who you are through the mess

To embrace your authenticity through life’s shadows

To know that you can feel your most powerful and vulnerable at the same time

That you can feel the most exhausted and the most alive simultaneously 

Life is too beautiful, too tragic and too complex to reduce it down into the ways in which we try to understand it

Instead of only sharing success stories

Why not begin sharing more true stories

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My hope is that my writing finds you when you need it

May it offer you a tender touch point

A “me too” moment

And to know that wherever you are deserves to be welcomed

And to know that your heart is not alone in whatever it may be traversing

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