Wisdom from Karen Brody

Looking back on my life it’s easy to see that all of it was perfect – that is, from here. It certainly didn’t feel that way when I was crawling through hell to get to this side of heaven.

We all have stories of pain. In fact it seems to be that very pain that points us in the direction of what we’re here to do. Look closely at where you hurt because under that pain lives a purpose and a mission.

Little did I know that the trauma and loss I experienced as a child and as a young woman was serving as a training ground for how to help others find their way out of darkness.

Whatever your struggle, your pain, your loss, know that there is something of value in all experience. And know — really and truly — that you are not what happens to you. You are so much more than that.

The first time I heard, “You are not what happens to you,” my life shifted in an instant.

I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that what happened to me in my past, was not me — not the essence of me. I was not a victim, nor would I live the life of a victim. The self-judgments that I’d allowed to define me and my choices, that I felt shackled to, began to release, and there was freedom inside of me for the very first time….Continue reading at InspireMeToday.com.

Karen is known as The Love and Intimacy Coach.

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Past Member .

5:37AM PST on Nov 20, 2011

thanks

November 20
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3:17AM PDT on Nov 2, 2011

I have learned that my greatest blessings have emanated from my traumas.

So do I want some more traumas?

NO!!!!!

November 2
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Marianna B M.

1:52AM PDT on Oct 28, 2011

thanks for sharing

October 28
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Laurie D.

10:19AM PDT on Oct 27, 2011

I firmly believe that as ADULTS, we have the ability to live in hell or heaven...given our own choices. HOWEVER, dealing with our childhood is another issue. Sometimes massive amounts of therapy is necessary to get to a neutral acceptance of the past. Perhaps that's causing a bit of confusion on this article.

October 27
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Vasu M.

8:00AM PDT on Oct 27, 2011

Messing with people's emotional lives is neither a prank nor a game.

You cannot move on until you first confront your past.

You can't confront your past if you're uncertain what transpired, and the perpetrators operating against you are keeping mum.

(there are no "good samaritans" coming to your rescue!)

You can only know what you've experienced firsthand, as a *subject* -- as a victim, while everyone around you sees what they term the bigger view.

Science fiction and science fact writer Arthur C. Clarke once said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

This indicates that if a person is the target of electronic harassment or a sting operation, they're bound to be confused, perplexed, etc... as only the perpetrators know what's going on (and the deliberate harm they're causing).

Actors and directors don't have hidden cameras following them into the toilet...

If you weren't wronged in some way, why aren't the perpetrators on friendly, loving, even intimate terms with you? Do you know them, their loved ones and their past as intimately as they know you and yours?

(A 712 moment here!)

And if you were wronged, you'd need to know what transpired before moving on, indeed in order to move on... what to speak of forgive and forget... if that's possible, if you're really spiritually evolved enough to do that in this present lifetime.