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Unmasking takes many forms. That which has been hidden, covered up, repressed, or neglected sings for release. I’ve devoted my life to clearing old holding patterns, particularly family and intergenerational legacy. Developing strength is a layered, repetitive process, and clearing and unmasking are the same, only a process of unlayering.
Recently, I called on my Inner Explorer to map an Unmasking Path into the tangled terrain, Not Fitting In. He’s old-school, carries around a blank page notebook to record everything he sees, hears, smells, tastes, touches, and senses. He produced a colorful map, showing some of my biggest challenges on the path of clearing out the severe masking I invested in over the years for covering up feeling I didn’t fit into social situations.
My Symptom Bearer training is always a tough code to crack. My Inner Code Hacker is a wizard, but he often gets stumped with this densely crafted code. It seems Symptom Bearer steps into the driver’s seat in social situations to fit in. If I take on everyone’s projections, I become an essential part of the situation, one of the pack. Except, of course, this technique doesn’t work because, though I get to practice releasing my shunned nature, at some point, I need to take writerly notes without getting caught up in the tangled dynamics filling a social circumstance.
