Lisa Ray Instagram – ‘How fortunate a thing it is, when life alters you without warning’ is one of the last things I wrote for my book Close to the Bone, though it appears in the prologue. And it’s a mantra I return to again and again to convey the embodied awakening experienced through meditation and trauma, through love and betrayal and finally through the gift of embracing stillness and listening to what my body had to say in the midst of medical upheaval. I share what I’ve learned about healing and life through talks and public gatherings and my writing not because I am the keeper of greater knowledge than anyone else, or I’m somehow special or superior, but because I have been the recipient of so much goodness and guidance when I needed it; to tell me that I had all the resources I need to summit this mountain inside myself. ‘Pay it forward’ I was told time and time again when I asked how to repay the kindness. . . ‘And prepare yourself for a miracle.’ . . | ‘I inhabit truth much better than the masks. I would rather stand here and display my wounds.’ No matter how deep or how ugly they may be | #ClosetotheBone #payitforward Image @farrokhchothia