07/12/2024
As I journey through this unfamiliar and uncomfortable space of therapy, this is one of the prevailing themes that I face daily, forgiving myself. I have to often remind myself, based on previous revelation from God, to give myself grace! Even when I started my journey with my therapist, she said “We definitely have to get you to a place where you are no longer beating yourself up”. I’m learning to be kind to the versions of myself that shamed me. So I’m learning to quickly cutoff rumination by speaking kind words about little girl Pam, teenage Pam and every version thereafter. Please join me in forgiving ourselves and show compassion to every version of ourselves.
The truth is the effects of trauma have done a lot of damage to our ability to make reasonable and responsible choices. As a result we’ve done some very challenging and interesting things to ourselves and others we may regret.
So forgive yourself and forgive the people, the executors of the trauma. That takes another level of compassion because they were broken and often times traumatized as well. The executors were often our parents or other family members that simply passed it on. Based on personal experience this part is huge. This is where my faith kicks in understanding the Grace and Mercy that God affords me every single morning. Lam 3:22-23 It helps me, sometimes with great challenge I must admit, to extend this Grace and Mercy to those broken vessels.
We must do the work to become the best version of ourselves. The Lord has Destiny for each of us! One again, let’s forgive ourselves, forgive the executors of the traumas and all the participators in the judgment of the effects of those traumas (another post for another day😒)and get to the BEST YOU!!!
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Reaching out to women helping them to appreciate their true value!!
