pain
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Will you be brave and give love a chance?
faith, Healing, life, love, Masculinity, mental health, morality, pain, power, relationships, shame, Therapy, truth
One of the reasons we men dont want to deal with our shit is because we dont believe we have the capacity to love ourselves. In many scenarios, whether from driven, neglectful, absent or collusive, abusive parents, Love was absent, and instead rules and expectations. In School, that wasnt the place either. And then there…
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You Can’t force your Jigsaw (But do open the box)
experiences, faith, Guilt, Healing, heart, love, memory, mental health, pain, parts, personal-growth, shame, Trauma, wholeness
Each of us has bits of us that we dont really like. Theres the bits of us that got damaged by our parents or family when we grew up, whether this was abuse, neglect, abandonment, the choices of our parents and the hurts of these. Theres the bits of us in school, the parts where…
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One of the treasures within each and every one of us is our hearts. You have one, as do I, and yet so often in our day to day lives our hearts, and the desires of them play a silent role in our lives. Advertisers appeal to our minds, our desires , our discontent and…
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The Struggle…….is the healing The Struggle…..is the real The Struggle………is where darkness and soul clash their fists And where something wounded reveals its truest need The Struggle….is the moment The Struggle…..is the sign The Struggle…..is the place Where past and future rage for change In a present unlived The struggle…is the grind The struggle… is…
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For everything under the sun, there is a time This is the season of your awakened harvesting When pain takes you to where you would rather not go. Through the white curtain of yesterdays to a place You had forgotten you knew from the inside out And a time when the bitter tree was planted.…
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If the process of healing is like an onion One layer of tears at a timeOne more step towards the core Then wounds are like eyes They hurt when stung They are the raw, vulnerable awakening Of pain needing more work Raw exposed and seen Wound of black hurt The pupil, the dark eye in…
James Ballantyne 