You know this feeling will pass - but that doesn’t make it any easier while you experience this searing pain. You have your healing rituals, we all do, now is the time to do them - all of them. Now is the time to carve out time to meditate, hone your yoga practice (there are free/very cheap yoga sessions in Columbia Heights during the day). If you want to go for a swim in the evenings or come over for dinner - just say the word. We love spending time with you and Sami and the TalPal adores being bossed by him!

Love and hugs,
G

The gift is in knowing when to let go and helping yourself do that. Honey, you are a very gifted person. You know, you just don’t know that you know and you are not believing in yourself enough to do it.

Remember a few months ago when I texted you from the movies with S? It was in that moment I knew we were over and I had let go. I couldn’t put myself through any more pain; it wasn’t worth it. It was a sucky feeling - to know I had failed at yet another relationship. But it was also freeing. I was letting go and opening myself up to all the other good amazing stuff that could be let into my life.

You are getting there. Slow and steady. Believe in you - in your knowledge, your power, your connectedness to all who have come before you and all who will walk after you. Their wisdom is your wisdom, their courage is your courage. Don’t keep yourself in this terrible trap of guilt and grief over what is done and over with.

Thank you for sharing your journey - I am happy to be reading more frequent blog posts from you!

This is going to sound wild, but… here goes. I was in a weird place (and am every now and again) a few months ago. IN early July I went to the Kennedy Center and saw The Color Purple. (Which is still running) The power of that show is something to see. It reached in, touched my heart and said… “let go” “Love” and “Beautiful.” I have heard others suggesting that they experienced something similar. I am returning with my daughter next month as the message is powerful, the music wonderful, and there is something in there that reaches into ones heart and asks each to remember who we are and the love that lives.

“I hold on, when the time for holding on is long past.”

I think one of the important keys to life is knowing when to hold on to something, and when to let go. It’s a learning process, definitely.

I’ve struggled through my fair share of depression, too. No real words of wisdom other than simply to say to hang in there and have faith that it will get better - because it absolutely will.

**hugs**

We all go through this honey. Such is the ebb and flow and impermanence of life. I remember blogging how jealous I was of so many people. And how I hated myself for feeling that way.

Feel it. It does suck but it is where you are right now. All that means is that it is not where you will be forever.

Love and hugs.