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Smoldering from the depths of me,
Smoke rises.
Out my vented chest
Butterflies flutter--
Your iris painted
the color of my minds sea.
Labradorite cinereal.
My silvered lantern.
fissured branches,
glowing ember.
Effervescent beauty seeps through me.
Chromatic metamorphosis.
Like moonlight you cast a beam,
On all the places that must
be seen.
Sepia budded vines entangled,
Growing.
I'm already something new.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, Wait a Meta, Existential Dialogues
There is a path from here to there paved in reels of undeveloped film.
You are the only one who will ever see it the way you experienced it.
You get to keep all the pictures.
You can choose which way to go
but you’ll never be for certain the future of not yet.
Life lives in mystery, love, and what’s not yet known.
The power of the future not yet.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, The Existentialist, Existential Dialogues
It doesn’t feel good to feel your heart hurting.
You give yourself to the universe knowing your heart will be broken over and over again. To experience the full breadth of love.
Even dogs leave us too soon.
A life without letting yourself feel fully doesn’t feel any better.
If you proceed into whatever will be without holding back, you may experience something that it is significantly different than the rest.
Where the potency of its knowing, seeing, hearing, being with, enlivens you.
The power of the future not yet.
What if the best experiences of your life are still not yet lived?
It might hit you one day. Out of nowhere.
You are in the living room tying your shoes.
You hear them coming closer, their bare feet across the cherry wood hall.
Dancing in silence, as if your favorite song was on, their scent lingers.
Enamored, in awe, you acknowledge this is the human you built this all with.
People arrive and you have no idea when they will be here.
What are you waiting for?
Go on, lean in.
Why are you saving to feel this later?
You may outlive your dog but what if you never felt that much love?
It is better to have felt the full breadth of love then to protect yourself from feeling heart break?
There will always be tragedy in life. Live your life vibrantly.
Knowing what it feels like to love something this much, mirrors the beauty in living.
How could you experience the fullness of what love has to offer if you only bring a part of you in?
What does going all in look like for you?
What are you afraid of happening if you let yourself love them fully?
How long do we teeter on the edge of something that offers us much more?
If you believe the mystery ahead is special, it will be.
#mindset
#whatyoutellyourselfmatters
#letyourselflovefully
#livividly
© Victoria Venturella, Existential Dialogues, The Existentialist
#liveloudly
#youmustfullyparticipate
#love
#dreambigger
#beseen
#beheard
#feellove
#lovedeeply
#loveyourself
#yourarepowerful
#youarehere
#youexist
#existential
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#existentialdread
#trusttheuniverse
#youchoose
#createyourlife
#compassion
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#relationshipwithself #communication #transcendence
#futureself #infinitepossibilities
#existentialpsychotherapy
Victoria Venturella, MA, Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapist, LMHCA
When you think a thought does it stop right there?
Do you stretch it to every corner of the world?
Do you take it inward and sit with it real deep?
Do you blurt it out letting it fall into the room?
How far does your curiosity guide you?
Are you willing to unravel where this thought came from?
How many experiences merge for you to conjure such an interpretation?
What do you do when something you are thinking doesn’t make sense?
What thoughts do you choose not to entertain?
When do you let a thought go on purpose?
Where does it go when it feels like it evaporates?
What do you consciously do with thoughts that continually resurface?
Do you sound out your feelings on paper?
What do you do with all the images you imagine? Do you ever imagine painting them?
Sketching them out blanketly in the sky above the sea, lost in thought staring lightly blue.
What do you do with the thoughts you zone out deeply thinking about?
How far do those thoughts expand when you forgot everything else mattered?
What does it feel like to think in silence?
How many instruments do you hear in this song?
Have you ever considered how many things influenced one thought? Chain of thoughts? Perpetual thoughts?
What do you do when you realize something you do comes from your Mother? Father? Caregiver? Mentor? Partner? Friend? How many thoughts become attached to that?
Have you ever examined what you tell yourself and ponder where it comes from?
Those questions that flood our psyche.
Have you ever considered what led you to such a passion? Where is this energy stored?
What do you do with creative juices felt in abundance?
How many branches hold a potential possibility in this imaginative thinking tree?
How many thoughts get lost in your shower?
What about the last one before you sleep?
What about the thoughts that pertain to why we are even here?
What do you think it means to be free?
To be free we must all be free.
Have you ever challenged yourself to find your own answer?
Do you hinder your best-self due to the perception of the other?
How important is it to you to form your own opinion?
Caption- [How far do you expand thought?]
#thinkdeeper
#doresearch
#deepthinker
#formyourownopinion
#philosophy
#poet
#deeppoems
#poems
#thinkingthing
#thinker
#think
#askmorequestions
#question
#existentialquestions
#showerthoughts
#freewill
#freedom
#deepconversations
Can you attempt to exist within the shoes of the other?
#thinktank
#brainstorm
#imagination
#imagine
#dreambigger
#dreambig
#ideamachiene
#youchoose
#loveyourself
#yourarepowerful
#youarehere
#youexist
#existential
#existentialangst
#existentialdread
#trusttheuniverse
#existentialphenomeology
#victoriaventurella
#relationshipwithself #communication #transcendence
#futureself #infinitepossibilities
#existentialpsychotherapy
Victoria Venturella, MA, Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapist, LMHCA
@ExistentialDialogues
@Centralpurposetherapy
© Victoria Venturella, Existential Dialogues, The Existentialist
““To perceive is suddenly to commit to an entire future of experiences in a present that never, strictly speaking, guarantees that future; to perceive is to believe in a world. It is this opening to a world that makes perceptual truth possible, or the actual realization of a Wahr-Nehmung, and permits us “to cross out” the preceding illusion, to hold it to be null and void. . .I was conscious of seeing a shadow and now I am conscious of having only seen a fly. My belonging to the world allows me to compensate for the fluctuations of the cogito, to displace one cogito in favor of another, and to meet up with the truth of my thought beyond its appearance (p.311). ”