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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 619759" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Seeking, Child, Tara Brach's book Radical Acceptance is as good a place as any to start reading about it... Also Pema Chodron's "When Things Fall Apart". I hope they give you some tools towards a new way of being, a better way of suffering. Cause suffering will always be there...it is how we live with it that matters. Thich Nhat Hahn says if we learn to suffer well, we suffer less. I have found that to be true, in my own imperfect attempts at embracing these paths. </p><p></p><p>Child, my heart broke for you when I read your post last night. I couldn't even respond to it...I had to sleep on it, and read it again today. I know those days so well...we all know them so well. They are SOOOO disheartening...it feels like all your work, all your progress, gets flushed away. The world of horror, of fear, and sorrow and loss that our difficult child's have engaged us in opens wide and endless in front of us, behind us, all around us. I know those days, those weeks, those months. I am so sorry you were feeling that yestarday.</p><p></p><p>When I feel well and strong I know this to be true, and when I feel like I am drowning, because that is what those days feel like, it is hard to truly embrace but I repeat it to myself anyway...the sadness can come. It doesn't have to stay. The sorrow, yearning, loss can all come. They don't have to stay. I will take good care of them while they are here...see them, honor them. They will move on in their own good time, usually a little faster if I let them in.</p><p></p><p>You've said the same to me, Child, in different ways. I am here, holding your hand, seeing the wounded world we have been dealt. We can invite it in for a while. It will leave again. </p><p></p><p>Holding you close in my heart today,</p><p></p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 619759, member: 17269"] Seeking, Child, Tara Brach's book Radical Acceptance is as good a place as any to start reading about it... Also Pema Chodron's "When Things Fall Apart". I hope they give you some tools towards a new way of being, a better way of suffering. Cause suffering will always be there...it is how we live with it that matters. Thich Nhat Hahn says if we learn to suffer well, we suffer less. I have found that to be true, in my own imperfect attempts at embracing these paths. Child, my heart broke for you when I read your post last night. I couldn't even respond to it...I had to sleep on it, and read it again today. I know those days so well...we all know them so well. They are SOOOO disheartening...it feels like all your work, all your progress, gets flushed away. The world of horror, of fear, and sorrow and loss that our difficult child's have engaged us in opens wide and endless in front of us, behind us, all around us. I know those days, those weeks, those months. I am so sorry you were feeling that yestarday. When I feel well and strong I know this to be true, and when I feel like I am drowning, because that is what those days feel like, it is hard to truly embrace but I repeat it to myself anyway...the sadness can come. It doesn't have to stay. The sorrow, yearning, loss can all come. They don't have to stay. I will take good care of them while they are here...see them, honor them. They will move on in their own good time, usually a little faster if I let them in. You've said the same to me, Child, in different ways. I am here, holding your hand, seeing the wounded world we have been dealt. We can invite it in for a while. It will leave again. Holding you close in my heart today, Echo [/QUOTE]
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