Healing Our Wounds

 Just like many others, I have devoured self-help books, listened to inspirational tapes, watched shows like Oprah, and attended motivation also conferences. But I knew that props wouldn't heal my life. I used them as support while working on my issues. Healing has to take place on a level deeper than our minds. We can't intellectualize our way into wholeness. We have to do the work. Most people avoid because it's uncomfortable. But truthfully, there is nothing more uncomfortable than carrying around old baggage. The older we get, the heavier it becomes. Sometimes it manifests into illness. An unhealed life is a life not fully lived.  

Practicing self care

 

I spent a big portion of my life disconnected from myself emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Today, a diet of pizza and hot dogs has become more of an occasional guilty pleasure. Spirituality has become one the biggest components to my life. And as far as physically, I listen to what my body asks of me. It loves to stretch and walk. Many years ago, I started yoga and still practice it today. Don't think that these changes came easily. They didn't. I was stubborn, but now I understand that I was really just afraid of change and loss of control. It took a lot of painful life lessons to awaken the sleeping parts of myself. I’ve had years of learning to surrender my will, my rigid ideas and my unhealthy behaviors.