by Carla | Oct 30, 2022 | Getting Through Difficult Experiences
Recently I was REFLECTING ON THE IDEA THAT: THERE’S NO NEED TO LOOK BACK AND REGRET or be concerned about things that have already happened, as we can: ~ trust that everything that has happened in our life – ‘good’ or ‘bad’ as we define it – was meant to...
by Carla | Oct 29, 2022 | Getting Through Difficult Experiences
WE OFTEN LOOK FOR THE SOURCE OF A PROBLEM – who or what is at fault. Maybe it’s how we’ve been conditioned: society has us wanting to look for what is at fault for everything from our wrinkles to our weight to an accident to anything that has things going...
by Carla | Oct 9, 2022 | Getting Through Difficult Experiences
WE CAN BE QUICK TO LAMENT A DIFFICULT OR PAINFUL EXPERIENCE – wishing things had gone differently, that we’d handled it differently, or that we’d known [this] or [that] beforehand. But the truth is: ~ we didn’t know it would go the way it did, ~ it did, indeed,...
by Carla | Oct 9, 2022 | Anxiety & Worry, Getting Through Difficult Experiences
Remember that BEFORE YOU MADE THE MISTAKE: ~ you didn’t know it wouldn’t work, ~ you didn’t know it would end up the way it did, ~ you didn’t intend for it to happen as it did, ~ you didn’t know the outcome would be as it was. You learned and now you know. You might...
by Carla | Sep 26, 2022 | Getting Through Difficult Experiences
AFTER A CHALLENGING OR IMPACTFUL INTERACTION, it’s OK to hold different feelings simultaneously about the experience, or to even oscillate between a few seemingly opposing emotions. Release any hefty expectations you might have of yourself that by extending compassion...
by Carla | Aug 28, 2022 | Getting Through Difficult Experiences
WHEN WE MAKE IT THROUGH A DIFFICULT EXPERIENCE WITH EASE or by the ‘skin of our teeth’ – it can be easy let the fears of the future invade our thoughts: ~But what will happen next time? ~But what if it doesn’t work out when something like this happens again? ~But what...
