The easy way is to sleep through life. The easy way is to let the archetype you inherited through culture, family system, and trauma define who you are. The easy way is the path of least resistance. The easy way is to be unconscious. When I am asleep, when I am not conscious, I forget who I truly am. Then while asleep to the patterns playing in the neural pathway groves of my brain, I can let the archetype of the princess, the damsel, the worker sweating for the dreams of others, the poor unfortunate soul shriveled, the ego, the pragmatist, the control freak, the Tasmanian devil, the teenager who does not know herself, or the little girl lead. This is the path of least resistance – these are the easy way patterns, which do not serve my higher good, my higher self, or my purpose in life. These pieces of myself must be accepted and acknowledged. I had it at least partially wrong. It is not that each of these pieces come out to play for a bit. It is not that each of these pieces of myself are even equal parts that should be shown and acknowledged. When they are triggered it means there is healing to be done. When they are triggered it means that the Queen has left the building. Her voice has been silenced, her instincts not heard, her advice silenced, and the body signals she sent ignored. Only when all these parts of myself are mindfully accepted as the reality can she rise and return to her rightful place. Her rightful place to accept the archetypes, to accept the reality of the world as it is first. Only then can she rise and live in her world as she desires it to be. I witness the beautiful, imperfect, compassionate mess that I am. I welcome and receive the transformation. The Queen Rises.