How is your own journey to letting go coming along? I hope you’re finding my daily musings on the topic here on the blog helpful. I also hope that you’re making progress. Embracing letting go isn’t always easy. It’s not something that comes natural to us and it takes...
We are social creatures and as such, we need to communicate. It helps to talk things through when we’re hurt, confused, happy, or feel any strong emotion. In an earlier post we talked about how important it is to be very clear on what you are letting go of...
There are lots of things I am grateful for. From my family, to the roof over my head, and having awesome blog readers like you, there are a lot of great people and things in my life. I’m sure you feel the same when you take the time to...
I’ve mentioned keeping a journal as a helpful tool during this letting go challenge. I thought today we’d talk about this in a little more detail. There are a lot of advantages to writing regularly in a journal. If you’ve kept a diary in the past, you may be...
Today we’re going to recap a few of the points I’ve shared in the past few post and get serious about starting this process of letting go. So far we’ve talked about the importance of facing and acknowledging the pain and anger you’re feeling. Then, knowing that you don’t...
I have news for you this morning. Contrary to popular belief, letting go isn’t really about the person you’re forgiving. Sure, it may seem that way on the surface, but as you’ll discover in this post – and possibly when you’ve truly learned to let go– letting go is...
In yesterday’s post we talked about the decision to let go. As much as we’d like to pretend that once the decision is made, we’re done, it’s not quite that simple. Letting go doesn’t come naturally. Instead, it’s more of a habit that we must establish. We make the...
Over the course of this post and the next, which I’ll publish tomorrow, we’re going to take a look at letting go. We’re going to examine how it’s both a decision and a process. In today’s post we’ll focus on the fact that first letting go is a decision...
We all get hurt by people around us. Sometimes it’s the people we love dearly and sometimes it’s those we barely know. In either case, it’s something that’s hard to take. Being hurt, misjudged, overlooked, and stepped on isn’t easy. It’s also not easy to get past that pain,...
So far we’ve talked a lot about forgiving others in this 30 Day Letting Go Challenge. There’s one very important person we’ve not talked about yet – and that’s you. It’s about time we take a closer look at forgiving yourself, what it means, why it’s so difficult, and...