The Past is Alive With Wisdom and Strength

Most people who come to me for therapy and counseling come in with a myriad of issues and problems, and most of these issues are completely solvable or at least we can make them livable or tolerable. However to do this we must reclaim our past, we must go there and embrace it, we must own it, sometimes we must relive it, because the past is who we are, it has brought us to the present and to some degree. will determine our future. You see, the problem is most people try to keep the past in the past, they try to bury it, or lock it up in a box, ...........you can do that, you can choose to bury it, that is an option, but I offer you one guarantee, it will seed and grow and will begin to affect you over time. We must look at the past as a set of lessons, lessons which we should learn from, the past is the hammering, the firing and the cooling in the forge, it is what makes us strong. So the past must be embraced, we must look at who we used to be, we must own the negative things we have done or experienced, because when we go back there, there is power and wisdom in those lessons, and that is the spark for the fire.

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