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Journey to emotional healing

I hope that the healed life is the goal of each of us: to work toward emotional healing, physical health and spiritual fulfillment.

Emotional healing includes learning what didn’t work and no longer repeating our past, self-defeating patterns.

This lovely piece by Portia Nelson sums it up nicely.

 Autobiography in Five Chapters

(1)

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk

I fall in.

I am lost . . . I am hopeless.

It isn’t my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

(2)

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don’t see it.

I fall in again.

I can’t believe I’m in the same place.

But it isn’t my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

 

(3)

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in . . . it’s a habit

My eyes are open

I know where I am

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

 

(4)

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk

I walk around it.

 

(5)

I walk down another street.

—Portia Nelson

 

[quote] “In every community, there is work to be done.  In every nation, there are wounds to heal.  In every heart, there is the power to do it.”  Marianne Williamson[/quote]

 

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