It has been very challenging to travel the road of awakening and insight on a steadfast and intensely intentional course only to discover that those who were closest to me were not quite as delighted when I passed through a long battled threshold to find myself on new and wondrous depth of consciousness.

I surely understand that my deepening into these states also often meant a gentle letting go from the intensity of connection we had once knew loved.

If my path was not respected, if I was confronted by intentionally placed obstacles and barriers to block my growth, then I was only left with releasing the access I had freely given to my love.

Lori Ellis-McKinney (2017)