How do you respond to suffering?

Having been an avoider for much of my life I would distract myself or go into the suffering and dramatize it to some degree. Now I look at it as an opportunity to learn and heal and do my best to just sit with what is going on, to feel and allow it to move through me.

It takes practice and awareness to practice compassion towards oneself but I am learning for myself and so that I can be there for others in the same way I am there for myself.

I support myself and others to love ourselves in whatever way that may be in the moment. For me it may be to cry and release, it may be to take a bath, to sit by the water or walk in a forest. Sometimes I journal, other times I sit quietly and sometimes I share.

I try to be there for others in whatever way that is and always do my best to just accept where I or someome else may be at any given time. I find that it is in acceptance I find peace.

In times when I am aware that I am avoiding "feeling" something, I know that I will do so when I am ready or that something will happen to "make" me be present to what is going on to create the suffering. Kinda of silly to wait when I know that just accepting it is what will end it lol!

xo Tatiana