My pain has made me clear. My trauma and grief have set me free. But only because I was willing to embrace the lesson that only can come in emotional introspection of the past and our present emotional state. I am not afraid of what comes now in this after, because I have unpacked my before. I’m not yet unburdened of my saddens and I may never be.
“A lot of resistance lives in the emotion of fear. Fear of loss, fear of losing favor with others, fear of rejection, fear of not being included, fear of eternal singledom, but are these fears real, or simply what we believe to be true? Our thoughts and emotions guide our actions. But, when we realize we are stuck, we innately blame. It’s always someone else.”
Read MoreAcceptance is the key to releasing any negative emotion. We humans have an interesting relationship with acceptance. We are primarily under the delusion that acceptance means there is no room for change, versus the reality that acceptance is the pathway for change.
Our emotions are holding us back from evolution in our relationships. Many of us fail in our emotional landscapes because we were never permitted to just be as children. We have emotionally unavailable parents, and we avoid therapy like the plague.
