9 Lessons on Loss, Forgiveness, and Healing | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In

Today I wanted to go a different direction with knowledge.

Because knowledge is not only what the truth is about the things we have been told in psychiatry but knowledge of the real source of emotional distress and the path I’ve followed to find freedom from it is really what the journey is about, isn’t it?

Today then…a post on finding forgiveness…and freedom. 

I’ve written some on forgiveness over at my personal blog, A Journey...today though I wanted to share another part of the path to freedom from emotional pain.

Grieving the loss of the life and relationships we lost or never had.

We all know about “anger”…but not everyone knows that if we are engaged in emotional healing anger and resentments are only part of the process and we often will try to hang onto that, refusing to move into forgiveness. Not even realizing that we have sadness and grief to visit yet to find freedom from our pain.

And what I’ve learned is that if we will allow the anger….the way to get “unstuck” from that place I found…is to allow the anger to melt into the grief and sadness.

Because with traumas….and family dysfunction there are going to be losses. Hell…losing 2 decades of my life to psychiatry is yet another loss that I’m working through every day.

But – I didn’t realize those losses from the traumas as sadness until another who traveled this path before me taught me to go through the anger and to allow the sadness and tears to come and that this – was where I’d find healing.

This – is where I first experienced that peace that passed my understanding as I healed myself from a lifetime of victimhood and began to find the power to no longer be that victim, to learn to live far beyond survival and rest myself on the place of “now” that would become my best life.

Today’s share….9 Lessons on Loss, Forgiveness, and Healing | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.

And a poem I wrote….a haiku…that I’d like to share is here; tears wash the soul free.

A Tale of Two Wolves…tells the story of a young warrior seeking wisdom

Knowledge IS power.

And truth DOES set us free.

In peace, love and hope. 

Namaste.

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