Forty Days on Being a Six by Tara Beth Leach

Author:Tara Beth Leach
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2021-06-15T04:33:31+00:00

God, I thank you that our faith is an embodied faith. I thank you that your Spirit speaks to us in our minds and bodies. Help me to discover practices that align my body and mind with your mind, Lord. Help me to discover new ways to clear my head, breathe, and have clarity. Amen.

Don’t Leave Me

FOR MY FIRST TEN YEARS of marriage I had a recurring nightmare that haunted my dreams at least once a month. It always started with something like my husband meeting another woman and leaving me. The rest of the dream was me weeping and begging and pleading for him to return to me. These dreams were terrible.

I would wake up and look and my husband and say, “I had that awful dream again.”

My gentle, kind, sweet husband would then wrap his arms around me, pull me into his embrace, and whisper in my ear, “You know I would never leave you, babe. I love you too much.”

I always believed him. He did and does love me and shows it daily. Jeff and I have a marriage full of love, laughter, inside jokes, and shared hobbies. He is my best friend, and hardly an hour goes by that I don’t think of him.

So I never understood why these dreams haunted me—that is, until my past was broken open and revealed in the hard work of therapy. As an Enneagram Six, I have a crushing fear of abandonment. But this fear doesn’t come from just anywhere. For me, it comes from actual trauma and abandonment.

The reality is, whatever the fears are that have a grip on our hearts, minds, and bodies, we can be healed. Through the years God has been healing deep wounds that have lived in the secret crevices of my being. As God heals those wounds through the work of therapy, reflection, spiritual practices, and prayer, my fears are being tamed.

It has been a long time since I’ve had an abandonment dream, and I give thanks to God for the work of healing that has been done in my life. What isn’t revealed cannot be healed, and cycles of fear will continue to grip our lives until they are repaired. We can’t change what happened to us, but we can change how past events have power over the present.

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