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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 638892" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Begin a gratitude journal. When things are unbelievably dark, that is the one thing ~ the only thing ~ I have found to help. If there is no time right now to think hard enough to actually write something, then just pick five simple things and repeat them to yourself.</p><p></p><p>It can be anything. A butterfly or a bird flying in a way that catches the eye or speaks to the heart. It can be that your grandchild is safe; that husband is there with you, alive and well.</p><p></p><p>That you are there, yourself, to do what can be done.</p><p></p><p>Any smallest thing to counter the darkness of this time.</p><p></p><p>I have found that gratitude, that looking for any smallest light, enables me to balance on that razor thin place between rage and resentment. When the anger passes, it will be those few moments when you remembered whatever tiniest piece of brightness and sanity you were able to find during the dark times that will be a bridge for you to sane response once the anger deflates and you are left with nothing to hold you up or show you a way to get through to the other time, to that time when this time is nothing more than a memory of betrayal.</p><p></p><p>Just a thing remembered.</p><p></p><p>There is a song I am linking for you. It helped me deal with the vulnerability, with the not knowing how to respond or how to keep moving through the day. Maybe the song you need will be different.</p><p></p><p>But I will link this one for you.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>[media=youtube]9oZXJD1NVW0[/media]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 638892, member: 17461"] Begin a gratitude journal. When things are unbelievably dark, that is the one thing ~ the only thing ~ I have found to help. If there is no time right now to think hard enough to actually write something, then just pick five simple things and repeat them to yourself. It can be anything. A butterfly or a bird flying in a way that catches the eye or speaks to the heart. It can be that your grandchild is safe; that husband is there with you, alive and well. That you are there, yourself, to do what can be done. Any smallest thing to counter the darkness of this time. I have found that gratitude, that looking for any smallest light, enables me to balance on that razor thin place between rage and resentment. When the anger passes, it will be those few moments when you remembered whatever tiniest piece of brightness and sanity you were able to find during the dark times that will be a bridge for you to sane response once the anger deflates and you are left with nothing to hold you up or show you a way to get through to the other time, to that time when this time is nothing more than a memory of betrayal. Just a thing remembered. There is a song I am linking for you. It helped me deal with the vulnerability, with the not knowing how to respond or how to keep moving through the day. Maybe the song you need will be different. But I will link this one for you. Cedar [media=youtube]9oZXJD1NVW0[/media] [/QUOTE]
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