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Practice Conscious Sympathy Instead

To show compassion is to purposefully shift your perspective to see someone else’s side of things with the pure intention of sympathizing with their struggles.

I know some of you reading this may already be thinking of that person who hurt you and how they don’t deserve your compassion. And you may be right, they probably don’t. But this isn’t about them as much as it’s is about you. Showing compassion to those who hurt us is the most compassionate thing we can do for ourselves.

I’m not saying that you use their history to excuse their actions – one does not pardon the other. I’m saying that whenever you’re ready to move on, you start by recognizing their past and present pains and how they’ve led to your own, instead of trying to come up with forgiveness that just isn’t ready to exist yet.​

This doesn’t mean you have to reach out to them if you don’t want to. Often we’re hurt by the people closest to us, meaning we usually already know them pretty well. Use everything you know about them that helps make sense of who they are to reach that compassionate point of understanding. This should eventually level the playing field, making you feel less sorry for yourself and more sympathetic towards them, and prepping you for getting past whatever it is they did.


We can’t move on from the things we don’t understand. Finding the kindness to set your anger and vengeance aside and listen to the one person who hurt you the most is a deliberate act of strength by you.  Give them the benefit of the doubt that they probably didn’t do what they did out of pure evilness, but because of an unfortunate series of events that led them there.


And never feel like you have to forgive. Don’t even think about it. Trust that it will come on its own when you’re ready.​

We Have All Been There!

Left heartbroken, betrayed, stifled, afraid, destructed at the hands of someone other than ourselves. It’s that bittersweet part of being alive: bitter when it’s fresh, sweet when it’s finally healed.

When discussing emotional healing, everyone seems to fixate on the home run of forgiveness, like it’s something you can simply decide to do. No one ever talks about what it takes to sincerely forgive or how to get there, leaving a lot of people with the common misconception that forgiveness happens on its own with time.

“You just need to give it some time… time heals all…”
While this may be the case in some light situations where we simply stop caring about someone and the way they hurt us, that’s not what mindful healing is. That’s just us mistaking indifference developed over time for forgiveness.

So let’s forget about forgiveness.

​​You NEED HEALING.... AND WE HAVE WHAT YOU NEED

The Magic Happens Right Where You Stand

Stop now. Shift gears!

Set your pain aside for a while and open yourself up to reading the person who hurt you like a villain in a movie. We’re all products of genetics and journeys; nature and nurture; sugar, spice, and some misery. Everything we are and ever do (good and bad) is the result of the things we’ve consciously and subconsciously been through. So take in their history, beliefs, intuitions, perceptions, upbringing, intelligence – literally everything that makes them who they are – and use them to make sense of their actions.

Your vision of them will steadily start to transition from the cold-blooded monster you see them as, to the normal human being they are. Putting those reality-check glasses on will help you realize that you weren’t weak for happening to be a victim of their actions, that it wasn’t your fault, and that it probably wasn’t even about you. It was about them and their bad decisions, rooted in their faults and weaknesses. That’s not something to hold against them, just something to be aware of.