Category: emotional healing
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Closure of Our Past
At the end of each phase of our emotional and spiritual growth, we need closure and house cleaning of sorts. They are closure on relationships that no longer conform to how we live or want to live our my lives. Similar to alcoholic who want to change and quit drinking, they must let go of…
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New Lenses, New Perspectives
The final days of this phase of my spiritual journey allows me see the last five years in a different perspective. What I tolerated earlier on my journey, simply is unacceptable now. My level of toleratnce for bad behaviors become less, and the quality of my life has improved significantly. The two things are directly…
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Healing the Trifecta
There are three other members of my immediate family, including my parents and my younger brother. Because of the abuse and dysfunctions within my family, which I believe is our family karma, I needed to overcome the abuse and dysfunctions of my family, including the roles I played with each member of my family. About…
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The Feeling of Letting Go
How do you know if you have healed your emotional pain? I explain this to many seuxally assaulted students with whom I work. You know because you no longer are triggered by people, places, and events that remind you of the trauma or negative experience. This is what I have learned. Recently, I looked back…
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Reflections of the Journey
During my spiritual journey, I have encountered so many people. Some helped and supported me, some taught me lessons, and some reflected back the unhealed wounds within me. Whoever they were, I had a chance to observe their progress, some from afar. It is a miraculous things to see others moving forward on their journeys,…
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Healing the Heart
The human heart is so very fragile and yet resilient. It is able to endure so much pain and hurt, but it also can easily be wounded by those we love. Recently, during a meeting with a sexually assaulted student with whom I worked disclosed that she had been sexually abused as child, tears streamed…
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My Journey Home
I finally found my way home, and it has been a long journey for me. My story began when I was cared for by my grandparents as an infant, and at the age of eight, my parents came for me and wanted me back. As I began my life with my parents, my childhood abuse…
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Farewell, Another Lesson in Letting Go
I dedicate this post to those I encountered on my spiritual journey thus far. This is my message to them: Thank you for showing me the wrong path, so I can find the right one. I am grateful you reflected back all the hurt and pain I held within me, and could not let go.…
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Finding the Light
I awoke this morning with such gratitude in my heart. Yesterday, I sold my house, and also got a second interview for a university job I want in California! There has been so much synchronicity in my life now with each moment of each day. The couple who bought my home wants to close on…
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Breaking the Bonds of Codependency
This weekend is a great exercise in letting go, and breaking free from codependency. Codependency is the oppositve of love as it is our need to fill the void by another because we cannot love ourselves. Do not confused codependency with love. If you have not learned to love yourself first, your relationships are codependencies.…
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