METANOIA

Have you ever heard of METANOIA?

It's a term from ancient Greek that means a "change of mind."

You could almost think of it like the caterpillar that goes through its metamorphosis.

The caterpillar creates it's cocoon, which is actually called a CHRYSALIS, and remains inside of it before going through a major transformation and emerging as a beautiful butterfly.

Metanoia represents a profound transformative change of heart, perspective, or spiritual conversion. It's a fundamental psychological transformation, sometimes resulting from a crisis or a spiritual repentance and rebirth.

Representing a complete turn in one's mindset, and life orientation.

This isolation, or time alone is the most important part, and not everyone does this work,

As humans, we often have to isolate, go deep, and go it alone to do the deeper inner work to change or transform. We need space and privacy to FEEL the feelings, work through the trauma or the hurt, whatever may be keeping us blocked/stuck.

So if you need to take that time to isolate, hide out, so that you can do the deeper work and move through what's blocking you... don't be hard on yourself.  Sometimes we need to go through Metanoia so we can re-emerge transformed, healed, or as our next best selves.