Trust me; I know a thing or two about living a contracted, fear-based, less than authentic life, within the confines of a closet. I also know a thing or two about sharing my soul with my demons and denying their existence.
Denying my demons nearly caused me my death.
Denying my demons nearly cost me my life.
Denial is a powerful drug.
(My choice of drug for years.)
It is a power food for our demons. They not only thrive on denial, they eat it up and exponentially grow in size, until they have nearly consumed you.
I know.
I was living in denial.
I was unknowingly feeding my personal demons.
They practically consumed all of me.
I nearly lost my life.
Until, that is … My demons came to save me.
I needed to emerge from the safety of the darkness and the fear.
I had been consciously communicating with the spirit realm long before the tragic death of my mother, Leah, 17 years ago. I hadn’t begun to actually make sense of it until after she left her physical form.
While I dabbled in receiving and making those connections, I continued to retreat back to the closet – thinking others might find me to be “mad” – a crazy woman who talks with the dead.
For every step I took into the light, I took two steps back into the closet. And I took those spirits who so desperately want to connect, with me.
Not only did I stifle myself, I arbitrarily took it upon myself to stifle them as well.
I retreated so far back that I had myself convinced I didn’t want to connect with the spirit realm; partially because it was so easy to communicate back and forth, that it ‘must not be real’ and partially because ‘others may judge me’.
And somewhere deep inside – I unknowingly believed a part of that decision was due to how damn comfortable I had become hanging out in the closets.
My spirit companions, those who desperately want to connect, found this behavior to be totally unacceptable.
They continued to knock and knock upon my door until one day – not so long ago, I decided to answer. Opening the door and stepping out of the closet was another story all together.