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Let Me Introduce you to Bluebeard

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To tell you what has unfolded in my silence, I have to introduce you to someone. His name is  Bluebeard. He is a character in a french fairy tale from the 1600’s. As most fairy tales do, the tale of Bluebeard is infused with meaning and symbols. Literary mythologists tell us that each person stars in a production of their own life story, pulling from the cast of the characters our complex inner world holds...I call this “parts work”. [Parts Work] Beloveds, you have heard me think from this framework before. It is so practical. It makes so much sense: the conversation that is happening in your depths anyway, you might as well organize it. That thing you do when you have an inner conversation: “part of me wants to watch Netflix”...”part of me wants to make a special meal for my children”...”part of me wants to take an adventurous trip”...which tug do you respond to when the clamor of inner needs and wants call for a decision to be made? A lack of intentional navi