{"id":3490,"date":"2021-01-03T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:02:52","slug":"emerging-into-freedom-is-not-so-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/emerging-into-freedom-is-not-so-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Into Freedom Is Not So Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have been floundering around a bit, burned out from putting out a record setting five books, selling my house in Virginia, buying a tour bus and launching out on full time travel while creating a new base in Texas. Burnout is totally understandable and I had compassion for myself in that, allowing myself to just rest, toy around with fun short term projects and take it easy. But soon enough there was a frustration with not having any one particular project that gripped me to the point of obsession. Knowing that discomfort is the gateway to growth, I allowed the feeling of frustration and discomfort. I welcomed it. Good! I am about to grow. By relaxing into the discomfort, welcoming it, and connecting to it, the answer came. My next topic of obsession will be the freedom that I have created for myself. Rueben and I noticed that, although we worked hard to put ourselves in a situation of ultimate freedom, we have not yet emerged into that freedom very far. Decades of conditioning are hard to break. Each topic I study, I have studied though the lens of the eleven stages of human development and how to help people along their journeys of self-understanding (see Purna Asatti for details on the stages). So here are the questions for my next obsession: FREEDOM.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>What is it to be truly free?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>How can I challenge myself to emerge into my freedom?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>What might I learn about myself and humanity at large by meeting the challenge to be truly free?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>As I face each challenge task, what stages do I find myself in?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>What experiences are important in learning to be free?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I will be creating a set of challenges for myself that push me further into my freedom. Stay tuned!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal essay on post-burnout restlessness and the decision to make freedom itself her next area of study, framing the inquiry through the eleven-stage model of human development and a planned set of self-challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,1419,864,540,1625,1926,1781,357,1005,1003,1481,944,934,1454,1460,1002,43,1929,1927,865,371,879,354,1006,355,1004,372,358,1589,1928],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-art","tag-business","tag-complete-connection","tag-connection","tag-consciousness","tag-consciousness-mastery","tag-couples","tag-cycle","tag-cycle-of-human-development","tag-finding-peace","tag-global-peace","tag-human-development","tag-kathryn-colleen","tag-lasting-peace","tag-lastingpeace-org","tag-life-optimization","tag-music","tag-personal","tag-podcasts","tag-purna-asatti","tag-religion","tag-roadmap","tag-seeing-yourself","tag-self-mastery","tag-self-development","tag-self-improvement","tag-spirituality","tag-stages","tag-understanding-people","tag-writing"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For readers navigating burnout or seeking to understand what genuine freedom asks of them, this piece models welcoming discomfort as growth. 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