Life is tough. There are so many different ways that things can manifest, so there is no one size fits all. Everyone has different things going on, different abilities, different circumstances, different burdens and backgrounds – so how one person handles a situation is not going to be how someone else handles it.

Everyone is unique and has a different role in life, but no one is better or worse than anyone else. The more we try to see the world from the balanced lens of unity, the easier it is for us to see ourselves as having an important role in life.

Most people have experienced some type of embarrassment – even if it is only second-hand. Yet sometimes we can experience embarrassment or shame that puts us in some sort of mental bondage. It can become a trigger that hangs over our heads for as long as we allow it to.

Forgiveness is so important because it helps to empower us. When we truly forgive, we get freedom from the past storylines that keep trying to drag us back into circular nonsense and eternal drama.

“The emotion that’s most closely linked to denial is hope, but it’s a false hope that things will turn out to be how we want them to be, as opposed to how they really are.

“Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.” -Robert Brault I had heard that I should love myself, and offer myself kindness without judgment. But at that time I didn’t know how to.

If you’ve ever had a problem that refuses to be resolved, it might be helpful to know that painful events repeat until we learn to let it go. It might not be us that’s holding on, yet we still may have the responsibility to let it all go.

Many of us who have experienced emotional abuse as children don’t recognize it as abuse. We may feel we were treated normally. We may feel like we need to protect our family, so we minimize how extreme it was.