If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Heidi Priebe ✍️🌷x.comIf we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely. Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
This is SO well said. The point of healing work is not to form & live inside of an updated blame narrative. It is ultimately to cut whichever emotional cords are keeping us stuck in a state of prolonged reaction to the past rather than behaving autonomously in the present.
Heidi Priebe 🏃♀️ is in motionx.comA therapist friend said to me today that—to a first approximation—all mental/emotional health is about learning to mourn.
I'm going to be thinking about that for a long time.
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