Post Written By Eugene Morgan It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on. — Unknown It is not easy to let go when our ego is involved. We want to be right and better than we feel. We have a need to feed our egos. However, there is a price for everything. […]
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Heal With Change
Post Written By Eugene Morgan I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change. — Diane Deetman We need time to heal. But we also need to take the time we to heal. That means letting go and saying goodbye when we’re ready someday to […]
Remaking Life After Grief
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. — Anne Roiphe We grieve because we lost someone close to our hearts. It can be difficult sometimes for us to move on because it feels like a part us has also died. However, […]
In Peace
] Post Written By Eugene Morgan You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Peace comes from within not from external events. We don’t need to be in control of external things for us to be peaceful. Sometimes we inadvertently control things and others with our fears. What will […]
Feel Today Strong Tomorrow
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.” — Unknown No one likes to experience pain whether that’s emotional or physical. However, physical pain is our body’s way of telling us to pay attention and to make the pain go away. Psychological pain, we all experience, is, for […]
Choose The Pain Of Discipline
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. — Jim Rohn In everyone’s life there are pain of discipline and pain of regret. We all know from our own experiences that what we want will require from us self-discipline. Discipline becomes painful […]
Start the Healing
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.— Buddha Sometimes we keep our pain because we want to keep the person or the event in our lives that caused the initial pain. Therefore, we can’t move forward in our lives. If the person(s) or the […]
It Is Time To Heal
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It is time to heal old and new wounds. We no longer have to hold on to pain, or keep ourselves from feeling the pain by numbing it with something. There is an accumulation of past pains along with present pains. Most of us or some of us hold on […]
Create Joy
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”—Milton Erickson Pain is inevitable whether that’s emotional or physical. It is harder to heal emotional pain because we hold the memory of that event that caused us discomfort. Psychological pain heals with time. However, we have […]
Pain and Pleasure
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Pain is not punishment; pleasure is not reward.” ~ Pema Chodron Pain doesn’t have to be in the context of punishment just as pleasure doesn’t have to be in the context of reward. We all have experienced growing pains when we’re learning something new or when we’re struggling. Some pain […]
Endurance Makes Me Stronger
Post Written By Eugene Morgan What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes we back down on something that challenges us, because we’re afraid that it may harm us somehow. We’re afraid we may not endure the physical or the mental pain. We’re afraid we may react to a challenge as though […]
Accepting Inconveniences as a Part of Life
Written By Eugene Morgan Sometimes we think certain things limit us from doing what we want. So we try to plan for options that would put excitement in our lives. But the reality is that we will always have inconveniences in our lives. Inconveniences are a part of life. We have to learn to accept […]
On Being Emotionally Free
Post Written By Eugene Morgan What we feel is very important to us. When we hurt emotionally, we need to feel our pain to heal. Sometimes we raise our shields, when we don’t want to face a painful memory, or a painful truth about ourselves. We need to feel the most, when it’s the most […]
Pain means we’re still Alive
Written By Eugene Morgan We all tried to avoid pain as much as possible, but it would be terrible if we couldn’t feel anything. Our bodies communicate to our brains when we stubbed a toe or accidentally touched a hot burner. If we didn’t have these experiences, it would be dangerous. It would be a […]