Some recent epiphanies.
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#1
What really aches is the memory of past hurts.
Unattended past hurts need attention. It is a slow and self dedicated process. If attended regularly, healing eventually will take place.
Past and present pain can be confusing, sharing the same level of intensity, and often triggered in patterns. Only present call for immediacy.
By dissociating the memory of past hurts from the actual ripples of present actions and events, we can recognize that the present hurt, if acknowledged, is often less acute than it first appear, and less overwhelming.
“When we deny our stories, they define us.
When we run from struggle, we are never free.”
Brene Brown
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#2
Some talks, encounters and events accidentally shift your ways.
By revealing your place on a bigger picture, by shining a new light on an issue, by uncovering a state of your mind that you didn’t know yet.
For this to happen some conditions need to be met: being open to it, and honest enough with yourself during before and after to face it.
“Showing up is our power.”
Brene Brown