Receiving lesson: Grief and Pain as a necessary Pathway to Acceptance

When you honor the full sweep of your emotions
For the purpose of practicing acceptance
and giving full voice to a violation
"You're likely to experience many losses at this time-
losses regarding the way you know yourself
and the person who harmed you,
losses regarding the way you think about people
and the world you live in.
Whatever is gone and changed has to be acknowledged
                            and grieved"

"...[A]s for all of us, the ability to empathize with ourselves- to feel for our own suffering, to know what we have endured- is a critical step in becoming whole again"

(Learned from "How Can I Forgive You?"- Janis Abrahms Spring p. 56)