Spiritual Ramblings or Gifts from my Daughter

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Spiritual Ramblings or Gifts from my Daughter

Reflection from the Trenches

StoicMom

Sep 07, 2022

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The greatest gift of this experience has been what I like to think is a deeper understanding of humanity and our journey together as a species. These are the spiritual ramblings of a middle aged woman who didn’t identify as “spiritual” prior to grappling with trans ideology.

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At this point, I have embraced this destabilizing, sometimes excruciating, sometimes wondrous experience of having a trans-IDed child as “curriculum of the soul.” Because I can’t help but imagine how different the world might be if we could all take the hardest thing in our lives and view it as this, as curriculum of the soul. Practitioners of Stoicism might say, "the obstacle is the way." These are my conversations and reflections--along the way.

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