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You Don’t Need to Reclaim Your Past to Heal Your Past
You can only learn from the past but can’t return to it.
Do you have trauma from your past? Have you experienced pain, suffering, sadness, and the like?
If you’re human, then you probably have had some or all of the above experiences. Some of them you probably don’t ever desire to recall or return to again. But some you might desire to redo or undo, and others you might desire to return to — with what you know now as opposed to what you knew then.
The trouble with the past is that it has passed. It has come and gone and can’t be returned to, reclaimed, redone, or otherwise revisited.
You might think that to move forward in your life, it’s important to reconcile with your past. To some degree, that’s true. But you can’t reconcile with your past by reclaiming it.
Reconciling vs reclaiming
The past had a major hand in making you who you are in the present. Experiences, environments, education, family, friends, associates, everything you’ve done and everywhere you’ve been played a part in making you who you are, now.
That includes all the highs and lows and everything in between.
