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Eileen Workman

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Donald Trump is teaching me that I cannot deny reality by ignoring or repressing it.

No matter how shrilly, loudly, or forcefully I declare my story to be true, reality meets me, head-on—and only one of us emerges whole.

He is teaching me that I cannot browbeat others forever into delaying their own reconciliation with truth. Even the stories I convince others to adopt, so I can feel safe in numbers and confident in my assumptions, will eventually collide with reality, and will reveal themselves too fragile to define or control the whole.

He is teaching me that power and force are not the same. Force radiates from fear, often cloaked in anger and self-righteousness. Fear lashes out to protect itself, because it does not trust itself to be whole enough.

Power arises from quiet inner knowing, from presence that cannot and will not be deterred.

He is teaching me that trying to lead from a childlike, reactive inner state is a self-destructive choice. Until one shifts into sovereignty, the compulsive need to survive will always overwhelm the graceful, compassionate power of awareness.

He is teaching me that real and rapid transformation arrives when old ways and systems no longer serve.

Only when I stop activating my old conditioning does inner space open for inspired insight, for novelty, and for the creative spark that aligns with life to self-ignite.

He is teaching me that trying to beat back change with force only invites the storm to break me. To tack with the wind is to give it nothing to destroy. To fight it head-on is to offer up my own sails for tearing.

He is teaching me to trust the quiet cosmic truths over my own fearful impulses to react, to fuss and fret, to grasp at control or lash out in fear.

For I am not here to survive simply to survive.

I am here to thrive—

to stand in my own self-empowerment,

to meet life without armor,

and to love the experience

of being aware

of being alive.

I choose to meet life as it is.

For in that meeting,

nothing needs defeating.

And I am free.