The Power Of Love and Friendship – Part 5: Liberation
Catch up here : The Power of Love and Friendship, Part 1 – Don’t Be Deceived
So HQ was tossing me cards, I was playing them and eventually others started to show up. I got some new friends and I started to build relationships with them. The friendships I already had got stronger and people in the gym started talking to me. All of this was slow. It was so incredibly slow.
For example, I went to the gym 4-5 times a week for almost 2 years before I lost a single pound! This is true. But once I got the weight to come off… well I was looking damned good underneath it, so big shock! I was still in the bad relationship though. I just couldn’t get out and no one could believe this.
People who have known me a long time, I mean. They couldn’t fathom how I could get stuck, because I am pure Houdini when it comes to this kind of thing. But not this time. This time I was pinned to the mat! I was screwed, blued, tattooed.
But then the soldier showed up. Yep. 2003. And do you know how Special Forces soldiers define their mission in life?
“De Oppresso Liber”. To liberate the oppressed…
Have you ever been liberated? Who, and how..?
16 Responses to “The Power Of Love and Friendship – Part 5: Liberation”
astrology liberated me when i needed it most. just to have a tool to understand what was going on [when i never got an answer to why - transiting pluto square moon] was miraculous.
meeting my husband, too, was liberating, but it was more of a natural occurrence–our relationship resulted after a lot of work on myself.
now i feel stuck/lazy (afraid maybe?) [i'm at the point when you first joined the gym] and need to get my body moving. and i mean literally…
The worst relationship of my life liberated me!!!
In the midst of sheer hell, I managed to think: I’m never escaping without my dignity again.
That affirmation liberated me, and I owe it to this person who “hurt” me so much.
I put it in quotes because I am so grateful for this person for fucking with me. Weird, huh?
The worst relationship of my life liberated me also in a sense that i thougth i would never be so down in my life again !!!!! After that moment of counsciousness i started to work very hard on myself.
Elsa, you helped me a lot also through your blog, especially when you said “the universe always conspires towards our happiness”. Thank you very much for the great service you give to thousands of persons !!!!!!!
I was liberated at age 42 when I went to the gym,too and lost 30 pounds. I eventually gained most of it back.. HOW HOW HOW to get back to feeling fit and trim, HOW to enjoy it again, where do i go to get the INSPIRATION? Am in such a lazy phase..Maddie, 6/28/1953 12:39 A.M. Bethesda,Md.–Sun Cancer pisces rising (lazy part) Cap. moon..I help others iwth astrology but boy can’t get my butt back in gear for exercise.. help!
Madeline,
Exercise involves more than a gym. Try walking. Lots of people hate exercise, but it feels sooooo good to get your body in MOTION. All that shit people say about moving around the house, taking the stairs, parking an extra 5 blocks away?? It’s all very true.
I think the inspiration comes from within. If a person thinks soley in terms of “I want to be smaller” that may not be so inspiring. If a person thinks: “I want to get outside in the fresh air, I want to feel my body move,” well that may work for you, right?
Good luck
I broke up with a verbally abusive JERK, he typified the type of man I’ve always gotten together with. The surprise attacks, the weird criticisms followed by ‘you’re so sexy’ then ‘but you’re crazy’ then ‘I feel disconnected from you’ but ‘you’re funny and beautiful’ then ‘you are an insecure psyco-bitch’.
It only took 2 months, I was 39, newly single, but I finally SAW the pattern. It felt so AMAZING to tell him to get lost using mulit-syllable words he had trouble comprehending….meow…. and he was so stunned!
I’ve been feeling that power ever since, and am getting ready to utilize it again…. (cue mad laughter as I warm up my wand and start to make my universe swirl) and WISH ME LUCK!!!
So what you’re saying is that the Soldier ran recon and got you out of a hot zone!? How romantic!
What an inspiring thread – wow from 2007
luci – that is true and here is something else true, no one knows.
::squints eye::
3 years later I returned the favor.
Rock and roll liberated me when I was 17. I had mastered my instrument, hooked up with people who supported and encouraged me, got moderate fame, got confidence and then 5 years later I fell in love and had to choose whether to keep doing that or get married and move 500 miles away.
How did you return the favor to Soldier? It’s so cool you two find each other at all the right times…indeed romantic 
PennyRoyal, same thing. I got him out of a bad situation.
We are both that kind of person. When you are absolutely totally fucking fucked, we come in and and a new movie ensues.
This is what happens when you grow up with Underdog.
oh, i love this: “when you are absolutely totally fucking fucked” hee 
Gotta say, you two inspire me. I’m glad to know things like this still exist. No greater sign from the universe that you are good for each other. Yay for Underdog!
Elsa, I don’t get it, how do you hit a plateau for 2 years? That’s a lonngggg time!
To make this comment relevant to astrology, Jupiter will be expanding my Aries rising next year and I’m scared even though I’m already thin.
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Two things liberated me (from my 15-yr rabbit hole):
1) Something someone close to me said. (He was astute about it. He used a metaphor. Short and to the point.) I at first tossed it out. Rejected it. He only ever said it once. Never came back with it, never pushed. One day, when I was ready, I acknowledged to myself that he was right.
2) You.
I don’t think we ever talked about my 15-yr rabbit hole. But you indirectly provided me with *The* Tool that turned (and is still turning) my whole life around: astrology.
It’s the old story: don’t just give someone fish to eat, teach them to fish. You did both for me. You did a lot of work for me on various issues I was battling, AND you taught me, via your blog(s), how to master astrology and apply it by myself to my own life. You fed me, AND you taught me how to feed myself.
So, while the SF guy was liberating you, you were liberating me.
I think you already know how grateful and appreciative I am of that. But, it surely bears saying again: Thanks. I owe you. My very life.