If you swallowed your food without chewing it up, you will have horrible indigestion! It's the same thing with feelings. They must be faced, eaten, chewed up properly, allowed the time to go through the digestive tract and then finally released from the body.
Too many times when we are faced with a painful situation we are ostracized for not 'getting over it' fast enough. You know what you would like to see the ultimate out come in that situation be, but that does not mean that it won't take time and proper healing to get there. Give yourself some slack, gather support and honor your feelings.
It's great to set a goal-but don't let it be about the time it takes to overcome something. This does not give you permission to wallow in it, but honor the fact that everyone processes differently and at different speeds. You have to take yourself all the way through it if you're ever going to get to the place where it doesn't effect you anymore.
The mantra for the day is:
I am working on it. I may get there tomorrow. I'm not quite there today. But I am working on it.
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