This is why sovereignty is necessary (and when it isn’t) 👑

By Lian Brook-Tyler

Sovereignty is one of those words that comes with so much glitz, baggage, and rot, it’s hard to look at it straight.

In truth, we *can’t* look at it straight.

We look at it through the wounded eyes of the Child.

We’ll see the Sovereign - the fantasy of it anyway - projected in the form of rulers and monarchs across the canvas of history, myths, and legends, but most of all, self and others.

Sometimes the projections will compel us to recoil, the memory of power-hungry tyrants, maybe in our own childhood household or in our ancestor’s blood, still tightening our jaws and shortening our breath.

Sometimes they’ll have us grasp, the allure of being a King or Queen intoxicates us, an upturned crown spilling with seduction.

Either way, our response tells us something important.

As our friend Clarissa said “Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Even though telling the truth means owning our projections, which can be inconvenient, humbling and often painful, especially for those of us long in the work, it’s necessary.

Even though owning our projections means we need to accept we only have a mirage of sovereignty to move towards… but in doing so, it opens us to the work of true maturation… Loving, attentive, boundaried and responsible, so that we can become the adult.

So that there’s finally an adult in the house.

So that at last, someone can parent the Child.

This is a long route for sure, it takes years, more often decades, maybe a lifetime, even lifetimes.

It can seem too high a price to pay.

But the shortcuts are fool’s gold, glamours and glimmers enticing us to abandon the Child once again, as we’ve been schooled with shame and stickers to do.

The Child is at the centre either way… The shortcut finds them shrinking, foot stomping, frozen and screaming. The long route, the same, maybe worse.

The only difference is that when taking the shortcut, the scared Child is the puppeteer, tugging the strings of the shadow parts created to help it survive in a dangerous world.

On the long route, the Child will still stomp and scream but the growing Sovereign will be there, over and over again, loving them, listening to them, reassuring them, making choices that allow the Child to trust it’s safe to trust, and the Sovereign to act from Love, Grace and Power.

And then little by little, as the Child feels secure and loved, it returns to innocence, allowing the bright soul to beam through into the world.

So we abandon the Child at our peril, because in abandoning the Child to be alone with their fear, we abandon our soul in this lifetime.

Sovereignty isn’t for everyone, it means nothing for its own sake, it only matters, it’s only meaningful, it’s only necessary… IF we want to live from soul.

For some of us, it’s a choiceless choice.

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