The Manifesto 4#
Hurting others in an attempt to ease your own hurt doesn’t work.
It’s like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
We don’t always get the apology or acknowledgement that we want or feel we need. Unfair I know, but true.
All feelings are legitimate. It’s important to feel them fully, however nursing your grievances indefinitely is a bad habit, because it hurts you more.
So how do we heal, move forward with our lives when we feel so hurt by others?
Firstly, we accept that we have a choice to move on.
Through therapy, self-reflection and support from our loved ones we may come to realise that if we crowd our brain and our life with past hurt there is little room for anything positive.
Hurting others or getting revenge doesn’t help. Feeding the hurt keeps it alive. It reduces you to your worst self.
“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices” Irvin Yalom
Kareena. x
Kareena Hodgson was a full-time professional international circus performer for 20 years, who is now an accredited Counsellor/life coach and The Manifesto is her professional consultancy. She is uniquely suited to working in the mental health space within the performing arts. She is also the Senior Editor, Executive Coach & Moral Backbone of Carnival Cinema.
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