


It still exists, it’s still there, and you know that.
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Letting go is not burying your dumbbell under a pile of clothes, hiding it in a cupboard or giving it to someone else to carry letting go is merely setting it down yourself and walking away from it, free to live your life. Imagine the specific situation or person you can’t let go of as a dumbbell. Here’s an analogy for you, since I love analogies. The emotion you feel is dulled and you can disconnect from it whenever you need. You just no longer let that situation haunt you. In fact, pin-pointing where and how you were hurt is how we build and enforce boundaries – a key element of self-care. This isn’t to say you’re not allowed to still acknowledge that a situation hurt you. Letting go, especially of what doesn’t serve you, is the ultimate way to grow as a human being as not only do you learn from it, you also release the negative feelings attached to it.

It might even still hurt you – and that’s okay – but it no longer causes your heart to skip a beat or stomach to clench. You can look back on them and either think about what you learned from that situation or simply brush it off as something that did once hurt you, but no longer does.

What ‘letting go’ means in the context of this blog post is processing past events, healing from them, and ultimately not allowing them to negatively affect you anymore. If you need to hold onto that grudge in order to protect yourself, you dig your nails in, girl. Letting go does not mean allowing toxic people and behaviour to be present in your life all in the name of positivity, letting go and not holding onto grudges. Nor does it necessarily mean total forgiveness, or any type of forgiveness for that matter. I want to make that very clear right off the bat. Letting go doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting. Using journal prompts for letting go can help us process the past, heal from it, and move on in a positive way. One of my – and most people’s – main sources of anxiety is an inability to let go of the past.Įverything from silly s*** we’ve said in passing conversations, to life-changing events can set us on edge and cause us to over-think.įortunately, there are ways to go about moving on in a healthy way – journaling is one of them.
