Our Struggles

Emotional Pain
Finding the roots
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🧠 Emotional Pain: A Wake-Up Call
It’s not just discomfort — it’s a signal. Something’s off. Something needs your attention.
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🏃♂️ We Try to Escape It
Work harder.
Stay busy.
Drink it away.
Push through.
But pain doesn’t disappear when ignored.
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🔍Pain = Opportunity
What if it’s not the enemy?
What if it’s your body and mind asking you to grow?
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🕰️ Sometimes Time Helps
But when pain sticks around, it’s time to dig deeper.
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🎒 Old Wounds, Old Patterns
The pain might be coming from something you’ve carried for years.
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💪 Because pain, when we pay attention to it, can point us toward healing… and real change.
Looking at the past.
Understanding your patterns.
Breaking free from emotional traps.
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🎁 Pain Can Be a Gift
But it usually only seen as a gift when we see it in the rear view mirror of life.
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Chronic Pain Resource Guide BC
How to preocess your emotions
Why our loved ones hurt
There’s a saying: “Find the pain and you will find the cure.”
This sounds simple, but it’s not always easy. Pain is often hidden deep inside because of all the stuff we go through in life.
Sometimes, the latest problem or event makes us realize something is wrong, but it’s usually not just one thing. It’s a bunch of past struggles that have built up over time.
We might ignore little pains along the way, but they keep adding up and eventually become a huge pile of emotional hurt. Finding where the pain started can help us heal and feel better, but it takes time and understanding.
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Book: Why has nobody told me this before? By Dr Julie Smith 2022 On Dark Places
2. Mood pitfalls to watch out for - Emotional Pain Topic
Fig 3. The vicious cycle of instant relief. Adapted from the work of Isabel Clark (2017)
Summary:
Thought bias is inevitable but we are not helpless to its effects.
We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.
Whatever has caused our low mood , tends to come along with focus on threat or loss.
This bias towards the negative can then feed back to intensify the low mood if we continue to focus on and believe those thoughts to be facts.
One strategy against the downward spiral this can cause is understanding that how we feel is not evidence that our thoughts are true.
Another strategy is taking a stance of curiosity.
Get some distance from those thoughts by becoming familiar with common biases, noticing when they appear and labeling them as biases, not facts.
3. Things that help Go to Author Opinion 1 ; Power Topic
Book: Why has nobody told me this before? By Dr Julie Smith 2022 On Emotional Pain
10. Make it all go away! Emotional Pain Topic
Summary:
Emotions are neither your enemy nor your friend.
We have more influence over our emotional state than we were ever taught to believe.
Pushing emotions away can cause more problems than allowing it to wash over us and take its natural course.
Emotions are not facts but one possible perspective.
If there are painful emotions, get curious, ask questions. What can they tell you?
11. What to do with emotions Go To: Authors Opinion - Feelings Topic
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