REFLECTIVE INSIGHT #008 - FROM THE VOID TO THE LIGHT: WHY I AM TELLING MY STORY

Coming clean

They say the darkest part of the night is just before the sun comes up, but for a while there, I was not sure if the morning would ever arrive. I am going to be totally straight with you: this is the scariest thing I have ever done. I am opening up about a time when my mental health broke down so badly that I was scarily close to checking out for good.

My world did not just feel messy; it felt like it had completely fallen apart. In our Māori way of seeing things, I was stuck in a very heavy season of Te Kore, the Great Void. But as our old people taught us, Te Kore is not just "nothingness." It is the place where all potential lives. It is the soil where the seed is waiting to sprout.

Why share this

I have decided to share this journey and what I am learning about "Quantum Whakapapa" for a few simple reasons. First, talking to you about these deep ideas helps me get my own mind right. It is like running a check on my own internal software. By explaining how we are all connected, I am stitching my own spirit back into the world.

Second, I know I am not the only one sitting on the porch feeling like the weight of the world is too much to carry. If my struggle, and the tools I have used to climb out of it, can give even a tiny bit of light to someone else in the dark, then the pain was not for nothing. We are all connected by whanaungatanga. When one of us finds a path to wellbeing, it sends ripples of hope through the whole community.