July 13 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
The B of Miriam Greenspan’s ABS skills from Healing through the Dark Emotions.
- Befriending
You have to feel it if you want to heal it. Sometimes we get a cultural message that feeling grief, fear or despair is a sign of weakness. I believe that it takes courage and strength to fully allow ourselves to experience these emotions and it is by experiencing them that we begin to heal through them.
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