How To Be Whole Again

On Recapturing Your Soul

Jonathan Greene
4 min readAug 20, 2019
Photo by Milan Popovic on Unsplash

We’re all so fractured. The years unraveling the strings of our soul. We didn’t even notice. The fact that we aren’t whole anymore. Going through the day-to-day minutia with a contemplative malaise. Unaware of the wavering percentage of us that continues to fall off each day. Discarded shavings of our life forgotten.

I don’t know when I became less than whole but I assume it was gradual. Or maybe we start as a whole being and wither away until we are just a speck of what we wanted to be. Or what we were. When I look back at my life, at the worst of times, in particular, I can vividly see just how broken I was. How broken I still am.

But I want to be whole again. I want to recapture my soul before it’s too late. Before I don’t have a say in the matter. Before I’m gone.

Stop Giving Pieces of Yourself Away

This is how it happens. This is what we do. We give pieces of ourselves away every day. Self-doubt. Circumstances. Ennui. The fact that life isn’t as good as it could be. If we only did this. Or that. Said this. At that time. Or this. And each time we chastise ourselves for being less than, we give more of us away.

But it’s not just us doing it to ourselves. We give pieces of ourselves away to others. With our…

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Jonathan Greene

Father, podcast host, poet, writer, real estate investor/team leader, certified life coach. Curating a meaningful life. IG: trustgreene | trustgreene.com