When you lose a parent as a child, the rest of the family has to stick together. You have to look out for each other and you can’t really ask for your wants and needs …
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Your Childhood Crutches Don’t Fit You Anymore: Discovering Your Childhood Baggage
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Does it hurt enough yet?
Humans are so strange. We continue to make the same mistakes long after we know they are mistakes. In fact, the only reason we ever change course is if continuing hurts more than changing. Usually …
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Can we talk about your crutches?
Tell me which crutch you use. The thing you reach for to fill the moments when it’s uncomfortable to be with your thoughts. Is it social media? TV? Weed? Booze? Alcohol? Which distraction feels better …
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Best Books on Healing Pain
Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself – Kristen Neff, PhD It’s hard to move forward when you tear yourself down constantly on the inside. This book helped me realize that I …
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Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.
Child you are so incredibly strong. You have so much inside of you. Life is brutal. You will be a small plant in a dark basement for a long time. You will not have much …
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Best Quotes on Healing Pain
Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate – Carl Jung Old pain doesn’t heal itself. It actually spreads when you don’t heal it. Unresolved childhood …