Freeing Ourselves from Past Wounds

While I’d phrase it a bit softer than Alan Cohen does in his quote, "Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future”, I do echo a similar sentiment. So often we avoid things because we’ve been hurt before, or we take on a harsh inner critic to avoid feeling caught off guard and hurt, and all that does is prevent us from enjoying life now. Sure, some level of self-protection is valid and necessary, but we often forget how much we’ve grown, and how capable we are now in protecting ourselves. We’re able to set boundaries now, stand up for ourselves, and we know that what other people say or do is a bigger reflection of them than of ourselves. Once we get to the point of knowing this in our minds, we need to know this in our hearts. This is what I help people with, healing their hearts to give them a felt sense of trust that they won’t get hurt the same way again, allowing those younger parts of ourselves frozen in time to be freed and protected by our older and wiser selves. So, in choosing to move forward with therapy, I urge you to ask yourself, what is your future worth to you?

"Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future."

~ Alan Cohen