Flowers of loving kindness

How to deal with the injuries and injustices that life seems to deal us at times?   How do we come to peace with the abuse we may have suffered due to others ignorance or unkindness?  How do we work with these hurts so that we are not re-traumatised but develop loving kindness both for ourselves and for others in the midst of this hurt?

Such questions are deeply on my mind this evening.  I had a week where intense hurts from the past flooded up into my awareness.  I was consciously extremely angry and I was working in therapy to acknowledge this anger.  I am aware that such anger when held inside and even sometimes in the course of trying to express it out of my system ends up injuring me in some way.  I know it is so important to have the protest and nothing that follows in this…