A Season Of Letting Go
If there's been one theme I've sensed in the few shorts months that 2024 has been with us, it's been this urgent need to let things go - to get ourselves and our homes right, to forgive and release old hurts and toxic relationships, to get out from under the powerful grip we've allowed the expectations and opinions of others to have on us, to step into a new day and shed the weightiness of the past that's held us back. As I've contemplated this, I've been surprised at the fact that, although I've done a lot of personal work in recent years to absolve myself of any bitterness or hard feelings or old wounds, some things still continue to bother me. Perhaps you've got a few of the same. Trauma has a way of sticking with us like that... even if we've taken significant strides to heal and transform and redeem these past sins and pains for good, the inescapable fact is that our bodies, our brains still keep the score. They record everything that'
