Why do we bury our pain deep within ourselves as if that has ever worked for anyone in the history of being alive. Best case, it will make you weird at parties, either now or later, worst case, it will ruin your children’s lives.
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A Note on Healing
If there is one thing that I have noted down about healing a few times, it would have to be that the process of healing could easily be beaten by a 100-year-old turtle walking uphill.
It does not even stand a chance against that expeditious turtle.
In other words, healing takes time. Here is how patience and a particular book is helping me with the process.
Learn to Laugh at Yourself
I know there is a huge amount of self-help books available but don’t worry, this is not an attempt to add to your anxiety of never being able to get it right. This is a fun one. It’s easy, and just like learning how to pee standing up as a chick, it will come in handy one day.
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Practise Kindness With Ease
Do you ever pay attention to those thoughts that pop into your head whenever you manage to calm your sweet monkey mind down a notch? Those thoughts that come up while meditating, while running or while simply paying attention to your breathing. Those thoughts are something special and should come with a little bow tie in their hair so the whole world can see how great they really are (but because the world is not perfect, here is a blog post to honour them).
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Your Inner Child
I want to tell you about five-year-old Maren because 20 (twenty.. really?) years later thinking about myself as a child isn’t just a great way to reminisce about the good old times.
It is a way to make sure that I am taking care of myself right now.
