If there’s something I’m proud of doing in 2018, it’s that I was able to heal myself.
Here are some quotes that supported me in my healing process and I hope this will help you go through it with more awareness and kindness –
When you walk away from the source of pain, you start healing.
– Najwa Zebian
Honestly, this should be the first step. The more you distance yourself from the source of pain, the more you can focus on yourself, your pain, your healing.
She’s an explorer, unafraid to travel within her heart and mind, ready to discover new spaces to heal – releasing burdens to planting wisdom wherever her awareness takes her.
– Yung Pueblo
When you start healing, you understand that you need to let go, let go of the thought patterns and behaviours that don’t serve you. You have to keep faith that the only YOU know what’s best for you. The knowledge or wisdom you are seeking is deep down in your heart. You have to listen to it and be gentle with yourself.
She once believed that the damage to her mind and heart was permanent, until she met wisdom, who taught her that no pain or wound is eternal, that all can be healed and that love can grow even in the toughest parts or her being.
– Yung Pueblo
Keep faith and keep going.
Perhaps it’s time to stop being so hard on your heart. Can’t you see she’s doing the best she can to stay standing against all that’s cold and harsh and hurtful in the world?
Forgive her for beating so fast. She’s just trying to keep up.
Hold her gently. Remind her to exhale. Let her rest today.
– Rebecca Ray
This will be much much easier if you are kind to yourself. Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for not knowing better. Forgive yourself for not doing better. Be gentle and kind with yourself.
You know these things that you need to hear sometimes?
Like you’re doing great and this is tough but you can do it and you are totally, absolutely enough?
You’re allowed to say those things to yourself.
– Rebecca Ray
If there’s something I wish I knew in my teenage its how to practice self compassion.
Now that I know how to be kind to myself, I realise the importance of it and the wonders that can happen if you are just kind to yourself.
I literally wrote down what I wanted to hear at that moment and said that to myself. Kindly. Gently. It made me feel much better.
Her rebirth was stunning. She lifted herself from the depths of despair, grasped her dreams, embedded them in her heart and walked forward into a future only her will and vision could control.
– Yung Pueblo
Reading this gave me strength I needed. The thought that I have my dreams, my passion, something to look forward to, made me more willing to let go of the pain and arose a strong desire to move forward.
Hope is not a fool.
She doesn’t promise you it won’t hurt. Or that it will be easy. She doesn’t even tell you the way.
But she does remind you that it matters. And as long as you’re seeking, Hope is listening.
– Rebecca Ray
Hope…. When you feel anything but hopeful, you should have hope?
As ironical as it might sound, you have to believe you will get through this to actually go through. It’s not possible to be hopeful 24×7, but when you feel like quitting, just remind yourself that this struggle will end, hopefully much sooner than you think.
Healing yourself will ask more of you –
More rest
More self love
More letting go
More time for learning
More space for transformation
More honesty about how you feel
More time developing good habits
More courage to try new practices
More time cultivating your inner peace
More faith in yourself and the process.
– Yung Pueblo
He said it best.
Remember that you are a work in progress. You are not perfect. You are not expected to be. Do not allow the fear of falling to stop you from jumping. Do not allow the fear of responsibility to stop you from committing. Do not allow the fear of exposure to stop you from shining.
– Najwa Zebian
You are not perfect and that’s okay. Do not burden yourself with unrealistic standards of perfection to achieve.
Don’t loose hope.
Someone, somewhere is looking for the exact same love that you have to offer. The exact same love that the one who hurt you did not appreciate. Don’t loose hope. And don’t settle.
The most beautiful love stories are those that come after you realise what you deserve and you actually finally get it.
You deserve someone who loves your way of love. Someone who loves you.
– Najwa Zebian
This gives you a relief. That everything is going to be okay. There’s nothing wrong with your love, nothing wrong with you.
Things I know about healing –
1. You get to set the pace, no one else.
2. You get to define what growth looks like for you.
3. You get to start over as many time as it takes.
– Rebecca Ray
Remember it’s your healing. It’s for you. You know better. It’s okay even if your healing doesn’t look like someone else’s.
And remember.. you are NOT alone in this. It might seem never ending storm, but you are not alone. Share your struggles with your family or close friend or a therapist.
Someone who listens to you patiently, doesn’t criticise you and lets you know you are not alone in this. Someone who supports and encourages you.
Seek help whenever you need.
It hurt. And she carried on.
It failed. And she carried on.
It broke. And she carried on.
She carried on. And it passed.
She carried on. And it changed.
She carried on. And it was beautiful.
– Rebecca Ray
