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Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
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Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up
Quetzal
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In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the excuses and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.
Yvonne Pierre
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Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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[M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I am asleep at night.
Brandon Bays
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If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
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Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.
Thaiia Senquetta
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When you awaken and are self aware, you heal. When you heal, you heal the world
Eileen Anglin
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Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
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While in principle groups for survivors are a good idea, in practice it soon becomes apparent that to organize a successful group is no simple matter. Groups that start out with hope and promise can dissolve acrimoniously, causing pain and disappointment to all involved. The destructive potential of groups is equal to their therapeutic promise. The role of the group leader carries with it a risk of the irresponsible exercise of authority.Conflicts that erupt among group members can all too easily re-create the dynamics of the traumatic event, with group members assuming the roles of perpetrator, accomplice, bystander, victim and rescuer. Such conflicts can be hurtful to individual participants and can lead to the group’s demise. In order to be successful, a group must have a clear and focused understanding of its therapeutic task and a structure that protects all participants adequately against the dangers of traumatic reenactment. Though groups may vary widely in composition and structure, these basic conditions must be fulfilled without exception.Commonality with other people carries with it all the meanings of the word common. It means belonging to a society, having a public role, being part of that which is universal. It means having a feeling of familiarity, of being known, of communion. It means taking part in the customary, the commonplace, the ordinary and the everyday. It also carries with it a feeling of smallness, or insignificance, a sense that one’s own troubles are ‘as a drop of rain in the sea.’ The survivor who has achieved commonality with others can rest from her labors. Her recovery is accomplished; all that remains before her is her life.
Judith Lewis Herman
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One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
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Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.
Pamela Clare
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Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Stephen Richards
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Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky
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The world is full of victims; don’t add to the growing culture of I’ve a story to tell, well not unless it’s a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.
Stephen Richards
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How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.
Shannon L. Alder
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The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
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Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.'Zuri Za Austin
N'Zuri Za Austin
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Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...
Jacqueline Ripstein
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The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.
Lisa J. Shultz
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I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
Virginia Woolf
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Love mercy, love kindness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From The Gardens of Ailana handbook for healers & mystics
Edward Fahey
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I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at peace, accepting that they won’t and can’t help me out of the mess they created. But, I’m the best qualified for that job anyway and I’m happy with the job I’m doing.
Christina Enevoldsen
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Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
Cassandra Clare
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God is merciful.God is faithful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Stephen Richards
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On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.'s Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
Leslie Le Mon
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The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Stephen Richards
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We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.
Steve Goodier
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Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.
Vironika Tugaleva
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The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
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A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.
Stephen Richards
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Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.
Gina Greenlee
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Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.
Palle Oswald
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Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.
Stephen Richards
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Writing a memoir is a holistic method of learning and healing by placing responsibility for personal transformation on the spiritual authority of the self. Writing a person’s life story is useful to gain a comprehensive understanding regarding a person’s maturation, distinctive stages of personal development and the influences provided by their family and society. The writing processes also serves as a catharsis for painful personal events that a person seeks to integrate into their transmuting being. Writing our personal story, we discover new dimensions of our being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
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The soul of us is never confused about why it is here.It only asks us to wake up and see the breadcrumb clues it has been leaving all along.It asks us to have courage to face the wounds we have been hiding, allow it to heal them and untangle the heavy, snarled patterns.Because the soul of us has no doubt whatever that it can and, if we allow it to express fully, can live a life of such power and joy through us that our human selves will be astonished.
Jacob Nordby
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You are strong enough to overcome the situation!
Lailah Gifty Akita
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Let go of your disappointments, mistakes and failures. May you find complete healing, renewed spiritual strength and courage to begin again.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
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There are parts of a woman’s heart that are reserved for certain types of love. Experiencing the love of a father figure in an appropriate way is essential in paving the way for the love of a man to be experienced in the right way.The love of a father is vital in ensuring that a woman’s heart is kept open in this area. If this area is not kept open, it produces problems later on in a woman’s life, for that area is also reserved for the romantic love that comes in the form of a marriage relationship. This is an extremely sensitive area of the heart for a woman and has plenty of opportunity to be easily bruised. When that does occur, she will put up a protective barrier to try and avoid any such pain occurring again. If this barrier isn’t dismantled fairly soon, a woman’s heart becomes accustomed to its protective barrier and the heart shielded inside gradually becomes hardened. As women, we may be able to function like this for awhile. But there will come a time in your life where God will begin to peel away those hard layers surrounding your heart and you probably won’t like that sensation. But you have to fight your natural instinct to run away.This is where many Christian women may get stuck. They view every man through the lens of what their father was to them, or what he was not. Their perception of men is shaded and often damaged, by the very people who should have been modeling the world of adult relationships to their daughters. As a result, their judgement is often clouded and women find themselves settling for less than what they truly deserve. Many marriages, even Christian marriages, have been damaged and even terminated because one or both partners refused to sit down and deal with their past issues.
Corallie Buchanan
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Healing comes in many ways and no one formula fits all.
Sharon Salzberg
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But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.
Andreas Eschbach
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The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die.
Dan B. Allender
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Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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We are on a journey not to be perfect, but to be whole.
Eileen Anglin
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