Our healing path can often be frustrating.

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Experiences and feelings from the past keep coming up.

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We work on them and process them, yet they persist.

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It can be confusing and depressing to keep doing our work.

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For it can feel like no matter how much we do, we are still dealing with the same issues.

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Those formative experiences we had as children keep coming back up.

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The pain, the trauma, the guilt, the shame.

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It all seems to never go away.

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After we have been working on ourselves for months, even years, we expected to be further along.

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When will we find relief?

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How do we get past all of this?

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We can feel defeated at times.

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As if we will never find a way to feel better.

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Yet that is never so.

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There is always a way forward.

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And it is helpful to remember that healing is a journey and not a destination.

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That every day we continue to do our work we actually are getting better.

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We just may not feel it at the time.

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For the reason that we continue to deal with the same issues is often that we are holding on to the energy of that situation

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We continue to feel angry, judged, shamed, belittled even though those situations are long gone.

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It is our own resistance that keeps those energies alive within us.

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As we keep telling ourselves the same stories over and over again we are only reinforcing those patterns, feelings, and behaviors.

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To move past those feelings we must make a conscious effort to let go of those energies.

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And change the stories we have been living into all these years.

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When we stop seeing ourselves as a victim of our history, and learn to rewrite the tales we tell ourselves, we find a new freedom.

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Embracing the power of being the creators we truly are is the only way to change how we feel.

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It is the path forward to a new life.

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In the beginning, we might not feel the new story we tell ourselves.

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The new story might not feel true to us.

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Keep telling it anyway.

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The more we tell it, the more we embrace the new stories we tell, the more they will feel real.

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And once we cross that threshold and start truly feeling that the new stories are real, then we will feel different.

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Then we will live a different life.

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All those years of working on ourselves starts to pay off.

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Without even thinking about it, we are feeling better.

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It does not happen overnight.

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Yet it does happen.

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Stay on the path and you will get there.

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And it will all be worth it.

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Are you holding on to the energy of your old stories?

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Can you rewrite those stories and keep telling them to yourself?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour