hey! i am curious about how you viewed shifting before you ever shifted? did you fully believe it was real? if yes, why? if no how did you deal with the doubts? have you ever gotten a lot of doubts at once and felt like shifting is so unrealistic? i am currently going through that which is making life really hard for me. especially because my cr is not a place that i love it's just draining.
I think it's incredibly hard to 100% believe something is real if you've never truly experienced it.
For me personally, for the longest time, shifting was more a ''hope'' rather than something I actually felt was real. I never experienced any symptoms or any results before I first shifted, and it became something closer to a routine or habit. I'd think about my drs during the day, I'd try to shift at night, but I doubt I really believed in what I was doing. It was more of a comfort.
Regardless of that, it's not like I didn't believe in shifting. I just didn't really know how to prove it to myself when I had no idea how to even experience anything at all.
So I did the thing that most humans dread deeply. I was patient. I accepted that, sooner or later, the solution would find me, and I stopped trying so incredibly hard to chase it.
That, and, my mental health was very fragile during that period, especially regarding shifting. Long story short but I went through a whole period of trying to gaslight myself into thinking shifting was fake, because I crashed out at some point and started thinking about shifting with SO many limiting and completely wrong thoughts that even the thought of the multiverse alone made me spiral.
But hey, I got back from that, got back into shifting because the pull towards it never truly left me. And I learned patience throughout it!
I waited and waited, all while still doing my little shifting routine every night. And I was right, the answer found me!
Especially the start of my journey was FAR from pretty and I had a shit ton of things I had to learn. But, as most of you probably know by now, it all was more than worth it in the end, and right now I'm in a better place than I've ever been mentally.
You don't have to trust fully that shifting is real to be able to do it, I promise. Just be kind to yourself, take the time you need. You'll figure this out💚
