Stop Running from Pain
Pause to Ponder
I greatly appreciate the following wise words from Glennon Doyle that encourage people to stop trying to resist pain. If you’d like to more tools to help you fully embrace difficult emotions, please join us next Saturday for our free online workshop, Stop Running from Feelings.
“You are not supposed to be happy all the time. Life hurts and it’s hard. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because it hurts for everybody. Don’t avoid the pain. You need it. It’s meant for you. Be still with it, let it come, let it go, let it leave you with the fuel you’ll burn to get your work done on this earth.”
“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other’s pain. Maybe that’s why we all feel like failures so often—because we all have the wrong job description for love.”
“I learned that I need to move toward the pain. Pain doesn’t go away. If you don’t embrace it, it will be passed onto someone else, usually those around you.”
“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”
—Glennon Doyle
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