60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: Being Shot With Two Arrows.

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Our lives contain pain and suffering. Pain is the physical sensation we feel. Suffering is the story we create around the pain. Yes, my ex-husband chose to have a year long affair and then leave. That was pain and bad enough! But the real trouble showed up in the suffering I created with a story about my so-called failures and inadequacies. All a story does is amplify the feeling of pain. This won’t do.

In time I learned that it was like being shot with two arrows: first, his infidelity and divorce and then second:  the story about my faults.  To reclaim my own way forward I had to learn to say: I’m in pain but I won’t suffer. Pain will return but if I leave the back door open it will have a way out. Try this and see if it helps you, too.

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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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