Inhabiting Pain
What if the fastest way through pain isn't around it, but into it?
In this milestone hundredth episode, James continues the Inhabiting Series — following reflections on inhabiting the belief that we are infinitely precious and inhabiting our bodies — by turning to something harder: inhabiting pain and struggle. James names his own instinct, shaped by an Enneagram Seven's pull toward distraction and escape, to anesthetize or outrun discomfort the moment it arrives.
Rather than offering a quick fix, James distinguishes between pain that signals real danger (the kind that sends us to the ER or…
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