Jesse Dawson

Serious photo magic happened here.
You will have to imagine what went on the chest for now… 🤔

Can’t wait for these shots to come back!

📸 Photographer:

“No one ever sees the Angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him.” 🎭

Trauma is the biggest hurdle to overcome in life, it creates arguments, spikes anxieties and insecurities, ends friendships and relationships. Trauma triggers all kinds of emotions and thoughts. You are the driver of your bus and you can't let trauma highjackers take control. Your mind, your emotoins, your responsibility.

Having super high expectations or too many walls for someone to get through may feel like a good system to figure out who to trust or who to keep close. In actual fact it does the opposite, it pushes others away and stops any relationship from truly having trust and flourishing into something great.

The easy way out is to never trust anyone and never allow anyone in, but it is also an extremely lonely way out too.

The challenges you see on day 1 can seem massive, but they are only day 1 challenges after all. When we look into the future the challenges can seem mountainous and impossible to overcome.

But remember that on day 100 you have 100 days of experience and momentum, day 100 is exactly te same as day 1, except it's day 100.

And vice versa day 1 can seem massive in some cases, but the same stands, at day 100 you have 100 days of experience, so the challenge will be just like day 1.

The size of the challenge is relative to the length of the journey

Shortcuts are for chumps, they are for cheaters, they are for get rich quick junkies.
When we take a shortcut, we lose a piece of ourselves, we lower the quality of our craft, the quality of ourselves, we betray the people around us.

Shortcuts never shorten the journey, they make it longer.

We all have gifts inside us, we all have something to share with the world. Often our biggest traumas are our gifts in the end. Sometimes it is our learnings or our passion... whatever it is for you, share it!

Otherwise, no one wins.

No one can deny the emotions you feel or have felt. They are real and valid and true for you right now in this moment. Only when we welcome emotions to come and go freely do we gain an understanding and emotional mastery around them.

We are in quite a state right now, the world in pain. I see it, I feel it, but... it can be so much worse than it is, no matter what you are going through. You might have lost a job, or maybe you feel alone in lockdown/quarantine, maybe your had to shut your business down. All of these horrible things, now imagine you lost an arm or a leg or you became homeless, or heck you become a bitter sinister person that just hates the world and takes no responsibility... way worse. Contrast is everything.