Comments on: A Healing Crisis or A Renewing Fire?

By: Leisa

Leisa — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:56:32 +0000

So true. I find journaling and blogging very therapeutic.

Thanks so much for stopping by and contributing.

By: book_it

book_it — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:42:57 +0000

Sometimes blogging helps. Putting things that bother us, or thing we’re going through, in words somehow can make things more manageable at times. Here’s hoping you have a super weekend… and stuff.

By: Grateful Guy

Grateful Guy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:16:24 +0000

I wonder if it was a freudian slip that made me put “insubstantial” in bold?

By: Leisa

Leisa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:51:04 +0000

I like that. Yes, they are worth having because they do change us. Hopefully for the better or we will keep having the same thing over and over again.

By: Leisa

Leisa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:48:51 +0000

“it’s usually signaled by some weeks of wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth; crying fits in the frozen goods section of the local supermarket are also a good sign of progress; being unable to leave the house is a hallmark of the end of the crisis.”

Yep, sounds like the same thing.

You said, “I always come away stronger, and knowing something about myself that I didn’t know before.” That is so true. It usually unearths something about myself that I need to deal with, need to heal, or need to release. It’s as if an earthquake is needed to unearth it.

By: Grateful Guy

Grateful Guy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:47:03 +0000

I tend to call them hurdles. I have to jump over them, but while I’m jumping, I’m flying to who-knows-where. Looking down the track of life, the hurdles are such insubstantial things, that they’re worth having, if only to make us stretch our legs as we fly over them.

By: BT Cassidy

BT Cassidy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:04:59 +0000

I think of it as seasonal change for my body and mind; all the things that have built up reach a point where I have to change. i have to remove bad things,i have to add great things, I have to let people know why I’m doing this. it’s usually signaled by some weeks of wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth; crying fits in the frozen goods section of the local supermarket are also a good sign of progress; being unable to leave the house is a hallmark of the end of the crisis.

I always think, “Hey, I’ve felt way worse than this before, no doubt I’m going to feel worse again some time in the future” and you know what, i’m right, but I always come away stronger, and knowing something about myself that I didn’t know before. The times of pain I look at the same as I do muscle strain from the gym- they mean I’m getting stronger.

Hope things get better for you- they always seem terrible at the time, but persevere and you’ll pass through this one too.