The problem with pain is that we are taught to fear it. Our whole lives we are taught to avoid pain and run from it when it approaches. “Don’t touch the stove because you’ll burn yourself. Don't jump off the swing because you'll scrape your knee.” The problem with that is we forget that pain is inevitable. There is no way that any one of us can skate through life untouched by it. And because we spend the majority of our lives being taught to avoid it, we never learn how to embrace it. So when its inevitable arrival comes, we either run from it or swallow it. This manifests itself in the form of addictions, eating disorders, self-harm, & suicidal ideation. It shows in avoidance, compartmentalization, and fear of living in the present. All those are, are unhealthy coping mechanisms that root from our inexperience of how to deal with pain when it comes.
Emotions are like waves, they come and they go. They pass in and throughout our bodies and either leave dark and ugly messes on our hearts and minds or are expressed in art and creation. One way or another, our pain has to leave our body. It’s our choice to let manifest into something ugly and cruel, or turn our pain into something beautiful. So please, turn your pain into art. Turn it into song. Dance and sing, scream if you have to. Do whatever you must to let it out in a way that will honor you. You owe yourself that much.
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