Quote Of The Week

Do you ever wonder if healing from emotional wounds is really possible? Can someone really heal from trauma, rejection, depression, a broken heart? Perhaps you have been hurting for a long time and things don’t seem to be getting better. Perhaps you feel stuck, like you have tried everything, and it has not helped.

When you feel so broken and defeated, the task of rebuilding or reinventing yourself and your life feels overwhelming. Its natural to have doubts to wonder if emotional healing is really possible. I want to assure you that emotional healing is possible. I see people make remarkable recoveries, becoming healthy, happy, and more fully themselves often in ways they never imagined.

Trying to make too many changes all at once can backfire. You may become overwhelmed or feel like a failure if you set unrealistic expectations. And dramatic changes are often unsustainable. Making micro-changes small, manageable, incremental changes create feelings of success, hope, and encouragement that are important to carry you through your healing process.

Healing is a lot of work. We need to be patient and allow for the time needed to gain new insights and skills. And we need to be persistent and keep going even when it gets difficult, be willing to try new approaches, and challenge ourselves in new ways.

When you ask a lot of yourself, you need to give a lot to yourself. Working on emotional healing takes an awful lot of energy, time, and sometimes money. In order to keep going, you need to really pay attention to your feelings and your physical sensations in your body (such as tight muscles, headaches, fatigue, etc.) because these are your body’s way of telling you what it needs. Take the extra time to listen and take good care of yourself.