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Coming home: Help for the heartbroken
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[QUOTE="Northern Laurie, post: 590451, member: 60627"] Its four months since I returned home, and it is wonderful to see this thread come back to life. Thank you [USER=43403]@Albertagirl[/USER] and [USER=41369]@CaminoDebrita[/USER] I've realized part of the "heartache" and the senses of baggage had to do with three fairly significant life choices I'd wanted to make, and that I'd hoped the Camino would provide space and time for me to make those decisions. It didn't - or at least when I came back I realized that the path I thought was right while walking, was not right at all. That I think was the crushing part. Thinking I had some decisions sorted out and then realizing that my ideas were based on the rosy coloured glasses of being on Camino, and not on reality. What I did take away from the Camino is to trust my own judgment for my own wellbeing, and to accept that while I will always be self-critical, I don't have to let myself go off the deep end. It took a while to be able to articulate this. And a lot of rereading my Camino journal and journalling since I got back (which is why I tend to encourage people to somehow record their thoughts). And in the meantime I have committed to something absolutely wholeheartedly and with complete joy! I will be training to be a lay-chaplain in my church, which will let me perform marriages, funerals, baby naming ceremonies and other rites of passage for people who need them but that don't belong to any particular community of faith. I am sure some of you will resonate with the sense of being "called". I was called. Loudly. Pretty much every day on the Camino. And now I get to do it :) Heartache has passed. Longing for the next Camino has started. It will be shorter. It will probably not end at Santiago. It won't have quite so many expectations - now if only I can get my foot to stop hurting! [/QUOTE]
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