There is no true healing without self acceptance.
Rejecting our feelings gets us in bad trouble, bad trouble indeed. Why do we reject feelings? Because they are uncomfortable, some of them. It is those uncomfortable feelings that we reject—feelings that lead to sickness, fear, loneliness.
We need to be gentler with ourselves. We need to embrace bad feelings as soon as they come up, just embrace and wrap our spacious Self around them. When we embrace, we love, don’t we? And it is love that is the healing Force.
https://celiaelaine.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/may-our-interior-be-healed/
I read a wonderful chapter in my book Soul Without Shame on self betrayal last night. The author was sharing how he learned to betray himself in childhood as a result of how his parents reacted to him telling him something didn’t hurt him or he should have a different response to his own legitimate one. In that moment, so as to not be abandoned emotionally he decided…
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This hit home. My father would always say: “you don’t have any problems. You don’t even know what problems are” negating my experience and feelings.
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Thats bloody tough. I am so sorry. When young we aren’t always aware its just their reality not necessarily ours. 🦋💙
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So true. It makes you second guess yourself always.
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I have also lived with that most of my life. ❤
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I know you have. Look at us now…overcoming!
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Hugs thats so lovely you are cherished.
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It’s an amazing phenomena
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🌈🙂
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