Have You Been Planted?

I’m working on an interview and one of the questions is about a favorite quote. I decided I needed to share more in depth about it here. "When you're in a dark place, you sometimes tend to think you've been buried.  Perhaps you've been planted.  Bloom." ~Christine Cain

There are many times in my life when I’ve been in a dark place.  What I didn’t realize until later was that it was a time of growth.  I was planted and the darkness was a time of learning, becoming and unbecoming.  After the death of my parents I was lost.  Darkness seemed to surround me.  I felt like I had nowhere to go. Nothing seemed right. 

I found myself again and realized I’d been planted.  I needed to go through that dark time to understand that I’d lost myself.  Life's for living and I’d been going through the motions.  If I’d never gone through that time of darkness, I never would’ve had the realizations I did and made choices to correct my course to grow through those circumstances.

I found myself through my yoga practice. My school offered some classes locally through a studio in Franklin, IN. This became my place of refuge, my place of reconnection. I thought I was buried, I wasn’t. I had been planted in a space to grow. I needed to learn about myself and my needs. I needed to reconnect with my soul and my desires. Everything realigned through those classes.

The next time you feel you’re in the darkness take a moment and look to see if you’re really planted and not buried.