Resurrecting Magic: Finding Hope and Purpose

I just finished Julia Fox’s memoir and I am left with one takeaway: everyone’s life is hard… but some people keep going and some people don’t.

At only 34 years old Julia has been to Hell and back, about 10,000 times. And she always picks herself back up.

She has had countless friends die. She was diagnosed with bipolar. She went to the hospital for drug overdoses more times than I can count, and yet she never stopped moving.

My biggest takeaway from this memoir is that you can grieve in motion. You can experience pain in motion.

Trauma, pain, and shame happen to all of us, but some people let it consume their lives and some people move forward with scars and bruises.

I’m realizing that no one lives a picture-perfect life. Everyone’s life is hard. Everyone’s life can feel like a nightmare. Everyone loses people close to them.

And yet they persevere. They sink their heels in. They keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Not me.

I stopped trying.

I stopped putting one foot in front of the other.

I stopped pursuing the hero’s journey or any kind of journey at all for that matter.