Thank you for sharing this, Amy. Your writing always continues to be balm and light. This is the second time this week I am seeing the message about choosing challenge (or in this case endurance) as a privilege and it has brought me to my knees. Thank you for writing, for sharing. What an honour to read your work.
Amy, As always, your words are so powerful and moving. And as always, whenever I see a post from you in my inbox, I literally stop whatever I'm doing to read it. Today's piece hit me particularly hard. I have recently made the decision to significantly distance myself from my adult daughter. She has hurt me time & time again, & I need to do this for my physical and emotional well-being. But it isu excruciating & heartbreaking. .thank you for your words about forgiveness & I hope that someday I will forgive her so I can feel free...
This is beautifully written. You weave together such different pieces—marathons, river hikes, spider nightmares, therapy sessions—and somehow it all lands exactly where it needs to. The part about forgiveness? I think this is far more common than we’re led to believe. Even if the road doesn’t lead to (what the more common understanding of) forgiveness, just choosing to face the harm and rewrite how it lives in us?That’s how the body starts to lighten the intensity of that “nauseous and brutal brew [of emotions].” Thank you for sharing!
Forgiveness often feels like a riddle, a tricky customer... I just read this: "Forgiveness is not always about getting closer to another person. Sometimes we forgive in order to let go." Dr. Galit Atlas
What I have experienced personally around forgiveness is that it gets the situation, person untangled from a constant looping in my being when I am able to arrive there. There is never a timeline, and it often catches me by surprise, when I realize that "it" whatever "it" may be has not been a constant story line running my being. I appreciate your writing about it, Amy. Thank you. 💜🪶
Thank you!
That was a deep dive …and truth for all of us .
I love the picture of spiders ‘clicking their heels ‘ Perfect…
Forgiveness is a deep and complicated thing that touches all of us. And the choice of it sets us free .
You painted us a beautiful picture , 😘
Thank you for sharing this, Amy. Your writing always continues to be balm and light. This is the second time this week I am seeing the message about choosing challenge (or in this case endurance) as a privilege and it has brought me to my knees. Thank you for writing, for sharing. What an honour to read your work.
Amy, As always, your words are so powerful and moving. And as always, whenever I see a post from you in my inbox, I literally stop whatever I'm doing to read it. Today's piece hit me particularly hard. I have recently made the decision to significantly distance myself from my adult daughter. She has hurt me time & time again, & I need to do this for my physical and emotional well-being. But it isu excruciating & heartbreaking. .thank you for your words about forgiveness & I hope that someday I will forgive her so I can feel free...
This is beautifully written. You weave together such different pieces—marathons, river hikes, spider nightmares, therapy sessions—and somehow it all lands exactly where it needs to. The part about forgiveness? I think this is far more common than we’re led to believe. Even if the road doesn’t lead to (what the more common understanding of) forgiveness, just choosing to face the harm and rewrite how it lives in us?That’s how the body starts to lighten the intensity of that “nauseous and brutal brew [of emotions].” Thank you for sharing!
Brilliant piece Amy which speaks so big!! Applicable to us all and difficult for all of us too. ❤️❤️
Forgiveness often feels like a riddle, a tricky customer... I just read this: "Forgiveness is not always about getting closer to another person. Sometimes we forgive in order to let go." Dr. Galit Atlas
What I have experienced personally around forgiveness is that it gets the situation, person untangled from a constant looping in my being when I am able to arrive there. There is never a timeline, and it often catches me by surprise, when I realize that "it" whatever "it" may be has not been a constant story line running my being. I appreciate your writing about it, Amy. Thank you. 💜🪶
I love this. It might take a life time, but I keep trying, too. Thank you.