I began working on re-parenting myself a while back. The piece you see is a metaphor of that process.
I read somewhere that bears, like humans and other animals, have a “critical space” —an area around them that they will defend. Once you enter a bear’s critical space, you may force the bear to act—and even become aggressive. The size of the critical space is different for every bear and every situation.
During my re-parenting process I learned from God that I had to become my own mama bear. After years of mothering and giving to others what I didn’t even own or contain inside myself, I began to disintegrate at a sub atomic level. My identity had become defined by my circumstances. I moved and lived in the “critical space” of other people’s lives, but I became much like a phantom and was very resentful of the solid folks around me.
Since then, my bear-like God has continued to consolidate and re-inform every part of my existence. My healing has allowed me to develop new connections and protect my own “critical space”.
