Readiness and resistance are not opposites.
They are the twin movements of transformation — one reaching forward, one remembering back.
Resistance is the awareness of what was before —
the body’s archive of protection.
And between them lies a third space: mid-emergence —
the trembling middle where history and potentiality meet.
Therapy often begins here,
where growth and fear share the same breath.
True readiness isn’t the absence of resistance;
it’s the courage to stay close to what’s mid-emerging —
to let remembrance and becoming hold hands.
In therapy, we pass the thread between readiness and resistance —
between what remembers and what reaches forward —
so that even as we venture into the dark,
we remain connected to the heart that offered the way out.
The giving and receiving of the thread is the bridge —
the living continuity between past and becoming.
When Ariadne hands the yarn to Theseus,
she’s not only ensuring his return;
she’s weaving history into motion.
The thread holds memory and possibility at once —
the past not as anchor, but as filament of emergence.
The yarn becomes both connection and faith in navigation —
the unseen relationship that allows exploration without annihilation.
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