This is a very difficult quote to read and accept if you’re still experiencing abuse or the effects of the abuse.

I know, because this quote was very difficult to look at much less to be able to feel it as a personal truth. I was too broken. I was too raw. I had internalized years of abuse, negativity and criticism to be able to feel uplifted at the thought of seeing what I had experienced as a gift. Period.

This was a quote I shook my head at for years while I went through my healing journey.

Now that I’ve come through from the dark side to the sunny side, I understand what he means, for when we go through all of our trials, when we go through our hard-won healing, we develop life skills we never would have learned had we not gone through those experiences.

Apparently I chose (as do we all) my trials before coming into this life. I don’t think I’d ever want to choose those things again, thank you very much, but I did develop strength, resilience, understanding and skills I didn’t have before, and never would have chosen to learn, considering what my teachers were going to be.

I now rejoice in all the lessons, for they enrich my life so that I can live in gratitude, happiness, and joy!

As you go through your healing, choose. Choose to grow in wisdom and compassion towards yourself and the world around you!

Choose to remember that you’re a very important part of the universe, and the lessons you’re learning are exactly what you and others need! You’re needed, so choose to take a peek at the awesome person you’re growing into!

More goodness:

• 20 Wayne Dyer Quotes to live by
• Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can!
• The heaviest burdens that we carry are the thoughts in our head.
• When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
• Nobody talks about this part… these are called growing pains.
• Is suffering necessary? Yes and no.
• Respect your body when it’s asking you for a break. Respect your mind when it’s seeking rest.
• Do not become small for people who refuse to grow!
• Don’t be afraid to start all over again. You may like your new story better.
• An authentic life does not require anyone else’s approval for your creative choices
• Just because you’re struggling does not mean you’re failing
• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We will get there someday.
• You only live once? False. You live everyday!
• Is depression a lack of faith? What happens when it is treated as such?
• You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty or unworthy!
• It’s okay to change your mind, even after making a declaration in front of family or peers!
• How do you know if you’re in the right place?

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Blessings!
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