When did you stop enjoying your life and start trying to survive it?
It’s tempting to follow the advice that says:
“Avoid everything that hurts and ignore your heartaches”
“Just focus on the positive”
… ironically, those two pieces of advice are the killers of real joy.
If you don’t deal with them honestly, small hurts and pains, disappointments and losses accumulate in your heart and mind like forgotten buttons in the junk drawer… they fill up the space inside you until there is no room left for the emotions you really want to feel.
Most people don’t consider grief work until something big pushes them over their limit and they can’t push things into that old junk drawer any more… but that’s like trying to learn to swim when you’re pushed into deep water.
Consider the alternative. Learn how to deal honestly with hurts and pain before your collection gets any bigger. Clean out the junk that has been waiting for your attention and make room for Joy.
It only takes 7 weeks to learn skills that can change the rest of your life. xox