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"Like Moses, who wandered forty years in the desert before seeing the promised land. Like Wesley from The Princess Bride, who said “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” Like Jesus, who walked straight toward his own crucifixion. First the pain, then the waiting, then the rising. All of our suffering comes when we try to get to our resurrection without allowing ourselves to be crucified. There is no glory EXCEPT straight through your story. Pain is not tragic. Pain is magic. Suffering is tragic. Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming." - Glennon Doyle
I got an email this week from a woman who was holding on to some hurt she had suffered over two decades ago and it did all in my power, not to respond with an email in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS so that she would get me the first time……… I opted to take a softer route to her heart that has nothing to do with drinking or not drinking and came across these words from Dr. Elaine Ryan (Retrain Your Brain) "If you met me last month, I was nasty to you and kicked you hard on your shin. This will hurt. It will hurt physically, on your shin. It may also hurt you emotionally. If you spent the past month thinking about it, “what a bitch, why did she do this to me?” and maybe working out exactly what to say to me when you saw me again. This is what makes you suffer. The more you think about it, the more intense the feelings come.
You re-live it. I might as well be by your side every day, kicking your shin. When this happens, it is no longer me that is causing your pain. You suffer because you do not let it go.
Maybe you think this is unfair – why should you let it go?
On the grand scale of life. These events are not important. I am not important. There are “the big things” that you have no control over that will cause you pain. The other stuff? The small things; ask yourself. Are they really that important to take up your personal space in your head, knowing that they make you feel bad? This is the part where you have the control that you can avoid. Choosing to let go of the relentless thoughts in your head, the rehashing of events that have already happened, and are in the past, allows
Pain is inevitable: suffering is optional - Haruki Murakami
It is so very easy to hold on to things in life that are not good for us. Let's be honest, you are reading this today because
you, like me, held on to alcohol for far too long.
you to put an end to unnecessary suffering.
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