When faced with great and overwhelming struggle, we must allow ourselves to be broken open. Surrender to the pain as it pushes you through. There is a transformation waiting on the other side of your journey and a place even more compelling than where you are now. To be ripped apart and broken open, revealing the soft and malleable underbelly of your emotional and physical existence, is like waking from a slumber. You know nothing exists outside of that experience. A part burns and dies, emerging from the ashes like a phoenix. To live again you must die, celebrating each death along the way.