Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Letting go of feelings that hold us to trauma is so stupidly simple to do yet ends up being incredibly difficult to practice. Must be some cosmic rule in play here. Wish I had a copy of the book. Events that we view as being traumatic, happen to us all of the time. We lose …
When I was a child, the harshest admonition my father could ever invoke was that he was disappointed in me. No amount of threats, groundings, or other punishments could carry the weight of his disappointment.
After all of the soul searching, evaluation, and deep thought, I arrived right back at forgiveness. Right where all of this caregiving started.
Getting a handle on things. We are good at that. Solve the problem. Implement the solution. Done and dusted. So what happens when problem solving eludes us? Things are spiraling out of our control and out of our grasp. We just… can’t… quite… make it turn out right… A New Problem or an Old One? …
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