My life has been interrupted with sexual betrayal. I am choosing how I show up and how I move forward.
“Our painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“Time heals all wounds” is a fallacy. Time does not heal all wounds. We can only heal when we choose do the work to heal.
Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time. Healing is possible when we choose to take responsibility, when we choose to take risks, and finally, when we choose to release the wound, to let go of the past or the grief.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
In 2024 I give up the need for a different past. I no longer long for a different past. I long for a different future.
“To forgive is to grieve—for what happened, for what didn’t happen—and to give up the need for a different past.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice
I can’t change what happened to me, but I can choose to live fully now.
“Here you are! In the sacred present. I can’t heal you—or anyone—but I can celebrate your choice to dismantle the prison in your mind, brick by brick. You can’t change what happened, you can’t change what you did or what was done to you. But you can choose how you live now. My precious, you can choose to be free.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice
For the past year I focused on what I lost. This year I want to shift my focus from what I lost to what I still have.
“It’s the first time I see that we have a choice: to pay attention to what we’ve lost or to pay attention to what we still have.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice
