Let Go and Be Free
Discover tips on self-healing, overcome a dysfunctional childhood and find happiness.
Day after day you are saddled with a heavy burden, or so you think. Each of us is trapped within our own struggles and it’s difficult for us to put those burdens down and to relax for a bit.
Guilt, repression, depression, anger, hate, fear, anxiety, and all sorts of challenges can rise up and try to strangle you and pull you down. You can ignore your feelings, repress them, or numb them with drugs, alcohol, work, sex, or a whole laundry list of things.
I started running a little over ten years ago. My friends gave my wife and me an old treadmill they had, so I figured that I should start to do some exercise in my life. Ten years later and I’ve run a good many races. I have two marathons under my belt (and one homemade marathon—I ran 26.2 miles in my neighborhood to raise money for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation), and I keep up with my running several times a week.
“Nobody loves me.” Or, “they’re all out to get me.” Or better yet: “I can’t get a break.”
Self-fulfilling prophecies are an easy way to build a defensive barrier around ourselves. By putting a negative thought out into the universe, we do so to protect ourselves from when the other shoe hits the ground.
