The stages of loneliness continue in this blog. Remember, like grief stages, these may occur in random order. 2. Bitterness – Painful Feelings channeled. When we do not deal with our painful feelings, they may fill up and spill over…
The Experience of Loneliness Loneliness seems to be a constantly companion in our survival journey. There are moments or seasons of our lives where it doesn’t seem so bad, then it surfaces like an additional punishment until we deal with…
Spiritual Loneliness: The Ultimate Loneliness The ultimate loneliness is a deep core spiritual loneliness for God. Some people tell me, I don’t believe in God, I don’t need Him. He wasn’t there for me when I was being hurt. The…
Loneliness and Time Here is a BIG one when we are dealing with loneliness. When we have been traumatized, we usually learn to live the future. Living in the present is not an option because in the present is where…
Pride, Business and Loneliness This pride is sometimes true sometimes a survival skills that works to boast our confidence and self-perception. It like all survival skills work to keep us going. Often it is based on things we think others…
Ok so how do we deal with it? It is painful, awful and I want to run from it. When I decided to write about loneliness, my old ever helpful, maybe not healthy, protective survival skills surfaced trying to keep…
As my healing journey continued, life presented more and more challenges that took me to my intense, deep loneliness. Here is the next part: At one point in my life I went through a very painful situation in my life…
This blog starts discussion on loneliness and surviving and transcending trauma. I hope it helps and please let me know your thoughts and feelings. TRAUMA AND LONELINESS I am sitting on my bed and feeling sorry for myself, playing spider…
When we are bitter, it affects our all our lives – thinking, feeling, speaking, behavior, and all our relationships. This is because of the pain and hurt inside of us. Sometimes we will even feel it in our physical bodies…
We have talked a lot about bitterness because it can take over our lives so much if we do not decide to approach our pain and hurt in a healthier way. Pain and hurt are usually the feelings under anger….
What is looks and sounds like: “I don’t want to be like this, I want to be me, I am not mean I am really a nice person. But I hate everyone and everything. I want to be different,…
Bitterness comes from pain, agony, hurt, sorrow, shame, etc. that we turn it into anger that comes from being traumatized. I am going to share my journey of dealing with bitterness from my journals during a very traumatic time my…