Your Treasure Chest

 

By Jenna Ryan

I tell my coaching clients who are struggling. I tell them, deep inside your being, there is a treasure chest of gold, and that treasure chest is you, hidden under layers and layers of dirt. This dirt is the lies that you believe about yourself from the messages and words and actions you've received.

Inside this treasure chest, bound by chains is a beautiful being. It's YOU. It's beautiful you and the truth of who you are. This you is banging on the sides of the chest, wanting to get out. This is the pain. The pain points the way to your true self, so therefore, lean into the pain (through grief) and allow yourself to go towards the pain and begin the process of digging her out. Layer by layer, tear by tear, day by day.

And then she starts to realize who she is, and the chains break, and she gets out of the chest, and she rises up out of the ashes and is able to see truth clearly, and everything makes sense.