Finishing Unfinished Business
🎧 Heal the Past Series #2 (with 3 optional exercises)
This is Part 2 of the Heal your Past series, with 2-3 gentle, potent exercises to help you let go and move on from unfinished business. Look out for my support and accountability chat thread on Substack if that feels right to you. Let’s get in to it!
Hi friends,
Life is often messy, and we encounter people and experiences that hurt us. Sometimes this is due to deliberate actions of others when we were children or as adults, or too much change or loss over a short period.
Sometimes we experience existential things like death of loved ones, illness, accidents, that can all have a profound impact on us.
This is all part of being human, though when too much happens for our brain to process, or we are highly sensitive, vulnerable, or too young to be able to make sense of it, we may find it hard to deal with and move on.
When the Past Haunts us, it is Unfinished Business
When harmful past events still haunt us, they can rise inside as extremely painful emotions, or horrible memories that won’t go away. We can be left with jumbled thoughts and feelings which are hard to articulate and can swirl around inside us like a hurricane.
Unfinished business are things from the past that our mind has not been able to complete and ‘file’ correctly, we need to find a way to ‘finish’ it. Otherwise we end up in a cycle that takes up our energy, time and headspace.
These tools will help you open the windows to let hurricanes, confusion and pain flow out of your system and into the ether. You’ll be better able to make sense of the past, let go, and move on into a stronger, clearer version of yourself.
“Imagine holding on to a hot burning coal. You would not fear letting go of it. In fact, once you noticed that you were holding on, you would probably drop it quickly. But we often do not recognise how we hold on to suffering. It seems to hold on to us.” - Joseph Goldstein
Do you have ‘unfinished business’ weighing you down? You are welcome to upgrade for a small investment and join us for the exercises and support. It is for paid subscribers as it requires your commitment to be of value (I suggest an hour a week). Still to come: moving on from painful memories, healing shame and creating your future. See you soon either way, and thanks for being here, your reading supports me too! Kate x
Paid subscribers read on and look out for a confidential chat Thread today on Substack if you’d would like support, encouragement, or have any questions.