Permission to Grieve
Memorial Day.
Usually it’s for grieving over the loss of our war veterans.
But this year, let’s use it to honor our grief for what we’ve lost due to COVID-19.
While I believe its important to look for the silver linings and stay positive, it’s essential that we take the time we need to grieve our losses.
Its Time to Make Compassion Cool!
As a 6th grader, I read Farewell to Manzanar, the book about a young girl’s experience being interned in the Japanese internment camps in 1941. I also read the Diary of Anne Frank, and then Roots (because mom wouldn’t let me watch it on TV). Then in college, I took a class on the holocaust.
As an empath, I felt the pain of those who suffered during such awful times in history. But I wasn’t interested in being depressed. I was looking for answers. Why were so many people willing to tolerate so much cruelty? Why did so many people just look the other way?
Read MoreThe Unbelievable Effects of Developing Resilience
So far, 2018 has dealt me with one punch in the gut after another. It began with the end of my relationship with my boyfriend who I was crazy about. It has been full of problems with housemates, stress from a law from the EU that could destroy my business, friendships falling apart, stress from more work that I could handle, loneliness, and despair about having to move out of my beloved home.
I was feeling beaten up, run down, hopeless and quite depressed. I was feeling like a victim to life. In the midst of all this happening, I developed a giant and painful cyst on my back that needed regular attending to, but was extremely hard to reach. The recommendations from my naturopath were helping, but the progress was far too slow, and I was having to consider surgical removal.
In trying to address the cyst, I discovered the metaphysical underpinnings. The questions I got were, “What will it take to stop feeling sorry for myself? And “What will it take to accept my life as a learning experience and look forward with hope?”
“Wow! “ I thought.. “how timely!”
In pondering these questions, I realized that I need to do a better job of bouncing back! I needed to release barriers to building resilience.
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