![]() ![]() “Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.” ~Gary Zukav.To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” ~Cynthia Occelli The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.“You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.” ~Robert M.When we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” ~Brené Brown “Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” ~Gary Zukav.“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi.I hope they can be as helpful to you as they were to me. On my path of healing, there have been many quotes that guided me like torches in the dark. And I’ve realized that pain beats numbness any day. I have so much joy in my life, but that joy is balanced with sorrow. I have processed through past trauma only by being vulnerable, and being vulnerable has meant embracing pain. I healed myself yesterday, and I will heal myself tomorrow. I cannot tell you that I have “healed myself” in any sort of final way. ![]() I had to learn to make self-healing a constant practice. I got to see myself in the light of my highest potential. When I wrote that book, I was on a healing honeymoon. You might remember my saying this in The Love Mindset. I am the one I was waiting for all along! Just the decision to take care of myself, instead of waiting for some saviour, has been profoundly transformative. I chose to take responsibility over my life experience rather than identifying myself as broken and blaming other people for breaking me. I stepped up and became the hero I so desperately needed. But maybe, it is courageous to do what is necessary instead of stubbornly self-destructing. Those infected wounds were killing me, and if I didn’t choose to heal, I would not have lasted. I would not say my healing was an act of courage as much as an act of necessity. It didn’t make it any easier that my head was full of thoughts that compelled me to drink, smoke, take a pill, find a warm body-anything to escape facing the darkness within myself. I experienced more pain than I ever thought possible. The wounds I had spent so long running from had become infected. Removing those bandages was, at first, a horrible experience. To keep from looking at the wounds on my heart, I bandaged myself head-to-toe and, on those bandages, I wrote stories about who I was. I spent many years running from pain, and thus running from solitude and self-awareness. For me, healing has been a messy business. ![]()
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