{"id":377,"date":"2013-04-07T14:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerperspectivecounseling.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2013-04-07T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T21:19:52","slug":"healing-emotional-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerperspectivecounseling.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Healing Emotional Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I never fail to be enchanted this time of the year; this seasonal transition from winter to spring.\u00a0 The ground is giving birth to green. Crocus are sprouting and opening with purple and yellow.\u00a0 Daffodils are encased in their green cocoons waiting to burst open.\u00a0 Tulips are pushing above ground still hiding their treasure. Mystery plants begin to peek above earth\u2019s crust.\u00a0 What is even more fascinating requires a closer look.\u00a0 From the trees and shrubs which appear barren and dry, are buds pushing to life.\u00a0 From what seems lifeless is about to push forth green leaves and lush blossoms.\u00a0 What is silent is about to scream with life.\u00a0 Into the still cold air there is a movement towards the sun.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerperspectivecounseling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/imagesCA0JKHZ5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-379\" alt=\"imagesCA0JKHZ5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerperspectivecounseling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/imagesCA0JKHZ5.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">I am inspired by this process because it speaks of hope and symbolizes our own human journey.\u00a0 As the plants have had to withdraw for winter renewal, we too need to withdraw from time to time when we are wounded.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cIt is human nature to withdraw when we are wounded\u2026 (but) we have to return to life above ground at some point.\u00a0 At some point we have to turn off the instinct <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">to flee and properly tend to the wound; courageously exploring thoughts and feelings attached to them.\u00a0 This begins the task of waking after the long winter.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Kim Johancen-Walt, LPC, <em>Counseling Today, <\/em>April 2013\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">As the buds brave the cold air of early spring in order to bloom, we also need to take risks, armed with hope and vision, and step into the sunlight.\u00a0 The sunlight reveals the wounds as well as the possibilities.\u00a0 There we find the hope and the strength.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I never fail to be enchanted this time of the year; this seasonal transition from winter to spring.\u00a0 The ground is giving birth to green. 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