Hurt In Progress
Pain manifests into violence when the hurt is silent.
Pain packs the power that propels egocentric pride.
People prey upon their pain like it is not their hurt that is hurting them inside.
How quiet are you about your emotional wounds?
How often when you hurt do you tell yourself or others that you are fine?
How can one experiencing hurt mean the ending of another’s life?
Not knowing what to do with our hurt is what hurts.
Not telling ourselves our truth is what’s worse.
Not honoring our humanity is how we exist in insanity.
Avoiding our feelings.
Childhood.
Invalidating our experiences.
Childhood.
Hiding what we fear will meet disapproval.
Childhood.
I did not say that your caretakers were good.
I did not say that your caretakers were not.
I am saying that they were human.
No one ever taught us how emotions work.
Teaching emotion takes emotional work.
Being present to ourselves in the moment when it hurts.
Practicing validation of our hurt is what helps the hurt heal.
Practicing validation of the hurt of others is what helps the hurt heal.
Validation means acknowledgment not agreement.
Emotion is not about agreement, but acknowledgment.
Pain manifests into violence when the hurt is silent.
