When you don’t heal your psychological hurts you live a life avoiding, accommodating, and tiptoeing around how you feel inside while never getting to the core of what’s really going on or developing self-awareness.
Unfortunately, people’s pain doesn’t only affect them, it spreads to others and creates all kinds of undesirable situations at home or at work. When people don’t heal their own hurts, they create discomfort in living rooms and board rooms and the consequences include:
- Toxic families.
- Broken marriages.
- Damaged kids.
- People who don’t like themselves or others.
- Chronic conflict.
- Unresolved issues.
- Workplaces where people treat each other horribly.
- Gossip.
- Organizations that promote negative behaviors.
- Ongoing retribution.
- Punitive, controlling or capricious leadership.
- Hurting others to cover for your hurts.
- Insecurity and ego.
- Lack of empathy.
Do any of these sound familiar? They happen all the time but, fortunately, you can interrupt these types of situations by increasing your self-awareness: Understand why you do things and how to move in a more positive direction.
The process of healing your hurts isn’t easy but it dramatically increases your quality of life and, by extension, the lives of everyone around you as well as well-being of the world. The way to get started is to acknowledge you have a hurt and then tend to it consciously and deliberately until it goes away.
What will you do to build self-awareness and start healing your hurts?
Cheers,
Guy
