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Wisdom From A Panda
Journals & Diaries / by mandapanda96
Last post
 February 19th, 2015
...See more Hey everyone, I'm not really sure where I should post it, so I'm posting it here. I thought about starting a forum post where people can ask me about various topics and I can discuss what I think about it and give you my insight. It was inspired by something my friend asked me. I'll post an example here of what I want this blog to be on and it will be based on what my friend asked and how I answered. Hey Manda. Do you have any advice for accepting yourself, forgiving yourself and moving on? What a beautiful question, love.   In order to heal and forgive and accept and let go, we must take an honest and compassionate look at ourselves. Allow yourself to go through the experience of grieving anything you feel like you've lost (by lost I do not only mean death but also things that are the image of who you think you are). Let all emotions surface and just move through you. Whatever the loss , let yourself be raw in response to the feelings you may face in response to them. Allow the emotional energy to surface and pass through. Know it will pass and the pain you are facing doesn't define who you are. If you aren't in the space for this but it feels like it needs to happen, find a quiet space and journal whatever you are feeling. Open yourself up to your emotions.  When you think of what you have been through that you have not found forgiveness for,what is the story you are telling yourself of what happened? Write it down, as though you were telling someone what occurred but so far you have been the only audience for this account. Not what you think you should be telling yourself but what you actually have been keeping inside when no one else is listening. Look at it honestly. If the story isn't full of compassion, respect, gentleness, and understanding of where you are and where you have been , try to rewrite it form a higher perspective. While we can't change our past we can rewrite our stories and make them true to what we want them to be. Reread the new and truer version of the story until it's in your mind and you do not remember the old story. When the old story arises remember to tell yourself "That's not what happened. What happened was..." and show yourself the love you deserve. We are perfect in process and not a product. We can have such high expectations and be more critical of ourselves than we would ever be of someone else. Moving into the present moment after letting go of the past, we can embrace ourselves on a deeper level and realize that we are whole and we have always been.. that we can stand in our own shoes by ourselves and feel such a deep strength inside and so much respect.  You can experience that love that resonates through all of you to your core. Tell yourself the story about who you really are. Well... that was enough Panda Wisdom for a day. I am sending you all love from my heart to yours <3 If you want to hear my wisdom on certain topics just post so below and I will try to reply <3  
Will I ever find happiness ?
Depression Support / by mandapanda96
Last post
 February 18th, 2015
...See more Everything has become so hopeless lately and every day life seems to be getting harder and harder for me. I am asked how I feel so often but I never know how to answer it. I have so many feelings at once that I can't put it all into words. I feel worthless, I'm such a failure and I literally screw every single thing up.  I mess up people's lives and I am such a horrible person. I really am. I have made so many bad mistakes in my life that I will never ever be able to forgive myself for. No matter how hard I try. My life hasn't been the easiest and it will never get easier. It is so hard not having a family to love me and a family that I can love back. It's so scary to think that soon I may be homeless and have no where to go. I don't want to live on the streets because I know that I won't be able to make it. I really won't be able to make it , at all.  And friends? Hah... what are friends? I don't have any. They don't even know the real me, nor can they know the real me because if they did they would absoluetly hate who I am. It is already a given. I just feel so so so so alone.  Recently I started counseling and taking antidepressants but that doesn't even seem to be working. My counselor already  thinks she can't help me and wants me to find someone else but I've already tried 4 other counselors. If they can't help me, will I ever find happiness ? I'm starting to think that I never will and it is one of the hardest things ever. My counselor even called me a bitch and told me I'm a bad person. If she thinks it true and has told me that, it's something that I have to believe. I don't think she'd tell me I'm a bad person if I wasn't a bad person. Nobody knows it, but I cry every single day. Every single day. These tears just need to go away because I can't take it. I just can't take it at all. Life is so hard. It is so so so hard and I want to get better. I really do want to get better. Being on here is the only thing that is helping me. Without the support I have from the 7 cups community, I would be so lost.  So thank you everyone. 
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