Getting through the Ouch
How do you let pain go? Is it a conscious decision? Do you just one day say “Enough! Be gone!! You aren’t serving me anymore!?” What about if the pain itself is a renewable resource? Just when you climb up on top of the wave, another bigger wave comes crashing in, from the side? How does one truly become pain-resilient? Notice that I didn’t say pain-resistant, I said pain-RESILIENT. Being resilient to me means that you forge tools to help you through challenging seasons in life. It’s the ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficult situations. It’s a feat you and your higher power accomplish together, in my experience, and also with the safe ones who rally around you and lift your head out of the water when you are too tired to swim any longer. I’ve experienced a fair amount of pain in my life, from a very early age sprinkled through present day. Enough to feel confident in my street cred when it...
