Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill. Its target is the epicentre of our being: our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on this earth to give that no one else has but us. Resistance means business.*
Steven Pressfield

Often, when something goes wrong, it is the small acts of self-care that we abandon first – even when they are the very things that have the power to heal us.**
William Seighart

The higher the stakes the greater
the resistance – coming at us from beyond and
within, so we’ll definitely
mess up, get hurt, doubt ourselves, and even
give up, and some have almost
been destroyed by it so that
they hurt everything around them.

A lack of self-care is doing
resistance’s work for it –
If you see a friend in a similar place, you
wouldn’t walk away but you’d help them to get back up;
You don’t write them off, so
why don’t you give yourself a hand, some
self-compassion, another chance.

This can look a lot like journaling, which
helps us separate the instructive from the destructive,
Re-arming us for another attempt at
bringing into the world the
unique and priceless that only we can;
We have already lost the gifts of so many,
We don’t want to lose yours.

Faithfulness is our response to resistance,
Faithfulness being playful with who we are and what we have,
Faithfulness that begets perseverance;
If there’s one thing that resistance
struggles with, it’s perseverance:
Here you come again,
And I’m cheering you on.

*Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work;
**William Seighart’s The Poetry Pharmacy.