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  • Post category:Feelings and Emotions / Mental health / Positive change
  • Post published:January 24, 2017

We all have invisible wounds and we’ll do anything to avoid them being touched. If someone else accidentally touches our wounds, we act as if they caused them. But, they didn’t cause them, and they cannot heal them. They are our wounds and we have the power to heal them.

Source: Hurt People Hurt Others, But They Hurt Themselves More @ Thought Catalog

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Tags: emotions, feelings, mental health, positive thinking

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