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BRONWEN
SCIORTINO
“ Get Curious With Your Life”
wE’ RE ALL BORN AS A UNIQUE individual and then life gets in our way. From the time we first crawl, we are taught that the people around us will show us what is right and wrong, good and bad, appropriate and inappropriate in our lives. We are taught that all our answers are found outside
ourselves and that the feedback from others will always dictate to us whether we have strayed outside our boundaries.
Living like this means that we have to switch off – or hide – most, if not all, of the unique parts of ourselves. We become conditioned to living on auto-pilot. We act, react, and behave without thinking. We even think without actually thinking. And we end up going through every day living someone else’ s version of our lives.
How do I know this? I lived like this until I collapsed and couldn’ t get back up. I pushed myself to extremes trying to make everyone around me happy, trying to perfect being good, appropriate and right. I demanded so much of myself that eventually there was nothing left to give.
When you’ re suddenly faced with nothing but time to look at yourself, life becomes extraordinarily daunting. When you’ ve spent your whole life avoiding the need to review the way you live – and ignoring the warning signs that you need to take notice of – it’ s terrifying to suddenly be the only thing in your focus.
When you’ re on the floor, in a million pieces and unable to stop crying – and with no idea where to turn – it is extremely hard to work out how to get back up.
There were two big lessons I learned during my two year recovery. The first is that living this way is completely unnecessary. The second lesson was that living differently is no more difficult than learning to get curious with your life.
In our formative years we are taught very early on that curiosity and creativity are two characteristics that won’ t always serve us as we get older. In fact, our conditioning teaches us that they are undesirable.
“ Before I began working with Bronwen, I was trying to make a number of changes in my life.” @ joanne casey LIFEGRID MAGAZINE | LIFEGRID. COM. AU APRIL 2017