ACCEPTANCE IS NOT DEFEAT (REPOST)

Accepting is NOT defeat, it’s adding layers of intimacy with the universe or higher power and getting more acquainted with them.

-Kyle Higgins, Mental Health Counselor

Does acceptance of something that didn’t go your way a form of defeat?

This is something my counselor and I recently talked about in a grueling session. For new readers that may not know, I have clinical depression and have been seeing a counselor years.

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FINALITY

FINALITY OR ENDINGS CAN BE MOST DIFFICULT. KNOWING WHEN IT IS TIME TO END SOMETHING CAUSING US MORE GREIF THAN GOOD, LEAVES MUCH SADNESS BUT OPENS DOORS TO NEW BEGINNINGS.

HOPELESSNESS, WE HARDLY KNEW YA!

For every obstacle you’ve ever faced, you’re still here.

-Anonymous

This is it. The end of the road so to speak. There’s no way out. You’re doomed forever.

Do the sentences above sound familiar?

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ACCEPTANCE IS NOT DEFEAT

Accepting is NOT defeat, it’s adding layers of intimacy with the universe or higher power and getting more acquainted with them. -Kyle Higgins, Mental Health Counselor Does acceptance of something that didn’t go your way a form of defeat? This is something my counselor and I recently talked about in a grueling session. For new … Read more

WOUNDS (WHAT DO PHYSICAL WOUNDS AND EMOTIONAL WOUNDS HAVE IN COMMON?)

Physical wounds and emotional wounds share more in common than you may think. We can’t bury our emotional abuse and hope it goes away. It does not and that emotional abuse will surface again.

DETOURS “GETTING BACK ON TRACK AFTER UNANTICIPATED LIFE EVENTS”

ONE OF THE EASIEST THINGS IN LIFE IS TO SET GOALS.  ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS IN LIFE IS TO FOLLOW THEM WITHOUT A DETOUR OF SOME KIND.  WHAT CAUSES US TO “TAKE A DETOUR” FROM REACHING OUR DREAMS AND GOALS?  IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU TO KNOW DETOURS ARE VERY COMMON, AND WHEN THEY OCCUR, … Read more

BANDAIDS

We all use bandaids throughout our life to cover our hurts and pain.  In this Daily Wisdom Words post, bandaids will be used metaphorically.  Bandaids in the physical sense, are placed over cuts or wounds or scars and scratches on our bodies.  I am referring to the bandaids we place on our emotional pain.  Bandaids … Read more

DISAGREEMENTS

Why do we have disagreements?  At what point do they spin out of control and become arguments?  Before we answer these questions, let’s take a look at the meaning of disagreements in our Webster Dictionary. Disagreements-1.  Lack of consensus or approval.  2.  Lack of consistency or correspondence.   Daily Wisdom Words Definition of Disagreements-inability to reach … Read more