Even This Will Be Made Beautiful

In uncertain and chapters of our story,  we often fall back on the old coping mechanisms we learned as children. Instincts, once helpful ensured we were safe in an existence filled with tension.

Today, this pressure often exposes the deeper wounds we carry, the ones we thought were healed. The coping mechanisms which served us for so long just don’t seem to hold up anymore, leaving us feeling vulnerable. Or worse, afraid.

 

When our coping strategies start to fail, we retreat to familiar places, responding not as the capable adults we are. Instead we default to the perspective of a wounded child. It’s easy to shut down, feel small and believe our existence doesn't matter. Know this;  there’s hope. The healthy part of us knows we can face what’s coming and even in the hardest times, we still have the power to shape our future.

 

Lately, many of us are meeting the wounded child within ourselves as unhealed trauma resurfaces.

 

Here's an exercise I find both healing and helpful:

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First, offer compassion to your inner child. Then, notice how you respond to stress, fear, and change. Are you reacting from your current self, or are you letting past pain take the wheel?

 

Consider how you interact with those around you and how you talk to yourself.

If your responses feel out of line with who you truly are, it may be that the unresolved parts of your past are influencing your present.

 

And though it might feel impossible right now, no matter what you’ve been through, healing is real. Your mind and heart can find restoration.

And it’s in this renewal where the most beautiful stories begin to take shape.

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