The Mission | Rory Green

The Mission

by Rory Green

My mission in life is to help people fall back in love with themselves. Not in a way that breeds narcissism or grandiosity but with an intimate fervor that is healing and emboldening. Too many people nurture self-loathing as if it were a fragile baby bird tipped out of the nest. So many of the external messages many of us have received from the cultural archives of the west encourage us to feed this wounded bird, gorging it on comparison, envy, perfectionism and striving. It’s no wonder we’re all exhausted and looking due east for answers.

Here’s my truth: I believe we are all born full of love for ourselves and others. Life and love are treacherous in so many ways though, and depending on a myriad of circumstances we can be redirected from that velvety pool of acceptance and belonging that is our birthright. The results are often catastrophic and our souls become parched. The symptoms of a parched soul are broad and varied – self-destructive behaviors, racism and prejudice, toxic inner critics, addiction, apathy, creative logjams, anger, anxiety. The list goes on. It’s painful searching for the path back to that glorious pool of love, and we can end up either shrinking from the world or arming ourselves for combat. We either avoid love completely or search for love in others, leaning on them with such a weight that neither side can grow strong roots and flourish. We binge and consume to fill the hole. We all too often run in circles and find ourselves on a rusty hamster wheel gasping for breath.

I speak from experience. I dreamt up Write To Be You after too many years looking for love in all the wrong places. I discovered that the path back to the LOVE POOL is always via a magic carpet ride. Booking a one way plane ticket to a pre-planned destination will never do the trick. At Write To Be You, I invite women to take the journey back to the bubbling life source – our naturally intuitive and creative capacities. Creativity is so much more than ‘artistic’ expression. A creative life is one filled with curiosity, trust, exploration, play, stillness, melancholy and joy. A creative life prospers in the sweet spot between polarities – that precarious place where you hold the delicate tension of both rather than either/or.

Light and dark.

Extrovert and introvert.

Wild and cautious.

Expansive and cozy.

At Write To Be You we learn to listen deeply to ourselves in the moment. Writing is practiced spontaneously and precariously, liberated from crafting and polishing and perfecting. Guided mediation leading you to the imaginative depths of your inner world is coupled with engagement and empathy and learning to own your story while listening to others. Forgiving ourselves again and again is a honeyed elixir, not to be mistaken for dodging accountability. In fact, I have found the closer we grow to true forgiveness, the more authentic our voices become.

At Write To Be You we brew the spells – throwing in any and all ingredients – our grievances, our joys, our hurts, our triumphs, our mess, our madness, our flower petals, our lost socks, our shiny buttons, our tangled jewels, our fragments, our fruits, our attempts, our unsung songs, our frailness, our power.

Together we toss it all into the cauldron and we brew to our hearts content.

In the spirit of my freeform curriculum, I invite you to get it Write not get it ‘right’. The path to self-compassion and self-love begins with one first step. Be investigative. Welcome stream of consciousness. Keep the pen moving or the fingers flowing.

Light a candle, set a timer and write for ten minutes spring boarding from the prompt below.

“I am called to…

I am interrupted by…”

With love and in solidarity,

Rory x

ABOUT THE AUTHORESS

Rory Green

Rory Green is a writer with an MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. After immersing herself in both professions, she decided to merge her passions and create Write To Be You, a reflective writing workshop designed to unlock creative blocks and explore authentic voice and self- compassion.

Rory has worked therapeutically with children and adults in London and Los Angeles where she currently facilitates her workshops described by one participant as a “supremely creative environment with ideas to short circuit the critic and unleash the beast, the child, the truth teller, the dreamer within…” Rory’s mother always told her that ‘Girls Can Do Anything!’ a mantra that helped reveal to her that self-belief is the key to creative freedom.

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