This past weekend, I experienced a trauma. It doesn’t fit into the categories of other traumas I’ve experienced. It wasn’t a car wreck, a sexual assault, or a medical trauma. There’s no ready-made label to validate my experience, and maybe that’s part of what makes it so hard. I wrote up the whole story to share with you, thinking that if you walked with me into my darkness, then we could also walk together back into the light. Isn’t that what we all do in life, over and over? Whether together or alone, we live in darkness, then reconnect with the light that was there all along, repeating that process over and over again.
Sorry to hear about this Lisa. From reading some of your replies, it looks like you are already walking back into the light, which is excellent! It sounds trite, but you get what you give, and you have given so much of yourself to help others who are going through similar challenges. You have touched and helped many people - probably more than you know. All that good energy flows back to you as well. I'm sending you a big virtual hug - good things are to come!
Sorry to hear this Lisa. I know you want to live- the world is too good to leave as are the people in it. Hang on to what is good even a tiny bit. Seek help if it is all too much.
You have been there for us. We are there for you, albeit virtually and for me many miles away. Xxx
Ah bless you Lisa, my heart goes out to you and virtual warm hugs ❤️❤️❤️ It is indeed very hard to pull yourself out of the doldrums as I call them now.... but as we have all learnt, these feelings, thoughts, emotions, symptoms always pass because they are all there to preserve and protect us (albeit highly sensitised due to the virus). I thank myself for being worried, panicked etc these days and give myself plenty of reassurance and these horrible moments, hours or days pass a little quicker. And of course it helps to share how you feel and we all know exactly how you feel. My issue is that I easily get frustrated that I can’t control my body so easily as before. Self compassion and reassurance and surrender, which is what you are doing, are the best way to bounce back. So give yourself a hug big bear hug from me and I hope you have a better day xxx xxxx
Sorry to hear about this Lisa. From reading some of your replies, it looks like you are already walking back into the light, which is excellent! It sounds trite, but you get what you give, and you have given so much of yourself to help others who are going through similar challenges. You have touched and helped many people - probably more than you know. All that good energy flows back to you as well. I'm sending you a big virtual hug - good things are to come!
Sorry to hear this Lisa. I know you want to live- the world is too good to leave as are the people in it. Hang on to what is good even a tiny bit. Seek help if it is all too much.
You have been there for us. We are there for you, albeit virtually and for me many miles away. Xxx
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Ah bless you Lisa, my heart goes out to you and virtual warm hugs ❤️❤️❤️ It is indeed very hard to pull yourself out of the doldrums as I call them now.... but as we have all learnt, these feelings, thoughts, emotions, symptoms always pass because they are all there to preserve and protect us (albeit highly sensitised due to the virus). I thank myself for being worried, panicked etc these days and give myself plenty of reassurance and these horrible moments, hours or days pass a little quicker. And of course it helps to share how you feel and we all know exactly how you feel. My issue is that I easily get frustrated that I can’t control my body so easily as before. Self compassion and reassurance and surrender, which is what you are doing, are the best way to bounce back. So give yourself a hug big bear hug from me and I hope you have a better day xxx xxxx