Ruach Recovery

What happened to you was not your fault. Yet what we cannot forget is that even when we are not at fault, healing in the aftermath will fall on us and instead... of being burdened by this, we can actually learn to see it as a rare gift. Healing is our responsibility because if it isn’t, an unfair circumstance becomes an unlived life. Healing is our responsibility because unprocessed pain gets transferred to everyone around us, and we are not going to allow what someone else did to us to become what we do to those we love. Healing is our responsibility because if we want our lives to be different, sitting and waiting for someone else to make them so will not actually change them. It will only make us dependent and bitter. Healing is our responsibility because healing is actually not returning to how and who we were before, it is becoming someone we have never been someone stronger, someone wiser, someone kinder. When we heal, we step into the people we have always wanted to be. We are not only able to metabolize the pain, we are able to affect real change in our lives, in our families, and in our communities. We are able to pursue our dreams more freely. We are able to handle whatever life throws at us, because we are self-efficient and assured. We are more willing to dare, risk, and dream of broader horizons, ones we never thought we’d reach. The thing is that when someone else does something wrong and it affects us, we often sit around waiting for them to take the pain away, as though they could come along and undo what has been done. Life hurts us all in different ways, but it is how we respond and who we become that determines whether a trauma becomes a tragedy, or the beginning of the story of how the victim became the hero. -Brianna Wiest Check out my Youtube video titled "Processing Pain" to learn steps on how to walk through pain and find healing.

We talk to ourselves at the rate of 150-300 words a minute, or nearly 50,000 thoughts per day. Of those words, 70% are negative, 95% will be repeated the next d...ay Take control of your thought life by proactively deciding what you are going to allow yourself to dwell on! #selftalk #positivethinking See more