We’re often afraid to show the messy, flawed, and vulnerable part of ourselves to others. It can be a tremendous relief when you do and someone accepts you just as you are.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world” – Anne Frank
You are allowed to change your opinions without people trying to make you feel guilty about it. Just because you believed it before doesn’t mean you have to believe it forever. People are always changing and learning.
To deal with emotional pain, you can develop emotional intelligence, learn to sit with negative feelings, and create situations for positive feelings.
Be aware that if you don’t deal with your feelings from events large and small now, they might end up later dealing with you.
The emotional pain that we are dealing with are really only thoughts.
It’s not your fault if other people do bad things to you. You are not responsible for other people’s actions.
We need both sadness and happiness in our lives. Sometimes we have trouble accepting sadness as part of our lives, but it’s important to acknowledge it before we can move on.
It’s not too late to be a little happy today. You still have time to do something happy. It feels good to end the day on a positive note.
“Pain is part of life and we can’t avoid it by resisting it. We can only minimize it by accepting it and dealing with it well.” – Lori Deschene