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Fairytales and myths are great for ushering us through life’s processes. There’s a reason so much of the action in these stories happens in the forest. The forest is the shrouded unknown place, away from the order of civilised life, where the protagonist goes to find themselves
No one leaves a forest in a fairytale without having completed some form of transformation. The forest is confusion, it’s getting lost, feeling lost, it’s not knowing what path to take. It’s feeling disoriented, fearful, vulnerable. It’s losing perspective - in order to gain some
Confusion is uncomfortable but sometimes necessary and not a problem unless we make it mean that it is. That we can’t do it - we are lost forever. That the forest is endless or that there are no answers. That no help will come. Confusion is the creative mixing place actually
There is a skill to engaging with the confusion here - trying to make the forest work along the normal rules of our every day life ain’t gonna happen. That is not how this place works. But the good news is certainty or rigid order is not necessary for success.
My main point is confusion doesn’t mean we’ve done something wrong or are off track. It’s a signal we’ve begun a process. So it’s going to require an acceptance and leaning in, but not obsessing over.
