The Ocean Mother and moving toward wholeness

​The Ocean Mother is the one who holds all of the things that we ignore, don’t tend to, or left behind because we didn’t know what to do with them.  It’s a lot like throwing things we hope to never see again into the depths of the sea.  But, the psyche, and the ocean, don’t work that way.
 
We get the opportunity to address these things again, the wounds, secrets, and shames of the past.  This can make the Ocean Mother feel daunting and enormous.  It’s why it can feel like she could swallow you up.  But it’s important to remember that we have control of our process (most of the time) and we can simply go to the shore and let the Ocean Mother lick our toes.  Small steps…  little bits at a time.
 
The Ocean Mother asks us to learn to make enough room in ourselves to hold all of the complexities and paradoxes of being a real human.  In many ways The Ocean Mother is the antidote to the dichotomy of Good Mother / Bad Mother. 
 
How to begin to hold more “this thing” and “that thing” in our lives… even though those two things feel at odds?  Step one: acceptance of things as they are.  Not in a doormat kind of way, or a collapsed and throw-your-hands in the air way… but as a willingness to be in the tough place of feeling torn between two things.  The desired outcome is to let both things be true, even if both of them being true simultaneously defies logic! 
 
The more I’ve let myself stand in this place, two things have happened.  One, is that I’ve become much more tolerant of myself and others.  And the second, even though I was originally fearful of stepping out of the logical place, as if I was giving up all ability to steer the ship, I actually found a lot of clarity and sense of knowing my own truth when I was willing to stand in the “in-between”.
 
So, what if, instead of falling into “this side” versus “that side” in daily life, we were able to tap into the rhythm of the Ocean Mother and allow ourselves to just flow back and forth between them until we found what we needed?  What if the "answer" more like a bridge than a place?