Pain is not a crutch

Posted on by Reena Saxena

Do those shafts of light heal, or just illuminate craters within?


Someone attempts to demean you with rebuke, hoping to induce guilt. It’s their strategy to escape demons. Blaming the other somehow relieves them of responsibility.


It takes those fleeting moments when you stand up to the other and say “I don’t care. I am me, and not what you expect me to be.”


Another shadow tried to overpower me, but I kill my shadows with the light of awareness.


Healing happens from within, when I allow it to happen and not use pain as a crutch for failure.

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