Best of Our Blogs: November 15, 2013

We go to great lengths to avoid what is for what we think life should be. We numb ourselves with drugs, alcohol, food, work, gossip and mindless TV. As a result, we lose the opportunity to learn from and truly know life for what it is.
Whatever challenge you’re enduring could feel unacceptable, intolerable, and terrifying. You may not believe you have the ability to cope. But courage doesn’t always come in heroic proportions. Sometimes all it requires is taking a step in awareness.
I love what best-selling author Kris Carr says on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday about her ten year journey with stage IV cancer:
“I felt like giving up and it wasn’t giving up on my life or my love or myself or my future. It was giving up this feeling of until they say I’m perfectly healthy I am broken. I looked around and decided that was a dragon that I would be chasing my entire life if I didn’t change my thinking because I may never be healthy on paper, but I am well.”
As you’ll read this week, life wasn’t meant to be perfect. But there’s purpose in chaos and beauty in what’s messy. Having a hard time accepting your anger, PTSD, negativity, or illness? Letting go of the way you think things should be will leave you open to receive all the unexpected gifts of what is.
{Flickr photo by JustyCinMD}

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Source: World of Psychology - November 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Ethics Family therapy Health Care Kris Carr Mental Health mind Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Private Practice Psychiatry Psychological Trauma Psychology social media Source Type: blogs