Emotional healing and scabs

When you fall down as a child, you may skin your knee. You get up, wash it off and put a bandaid on it.
When you fall down as an adult, you may skin your knee. You get up, wash it off and put a bandaid on it.

• You keep the bandaid on it to keep it protected. 
• You change it when needed. 
• You may put some medicine on it. 
• You wait for it to heal. 
• It may hurt for a while, but it gets better. 

 So, what do you do about emotional hurts? Where is the bandaid that helps you recover and heal from the other things that happen in our lives?

• How do you keep it protected from harm? 
• How do you change when needed? 
• How do you "put some medicine on it"? 
• How long does it take to heal? 
• Will it ever get better?

Wouldn't it be great if our emotional healing was as easy as our physical healing?

Wouldn't it be great if we fell down in a certain area of our lives, got up, washed it off and put a bandaid on it? It would eventually scab over, we'd put some medicine on it if needed, and wait for it to heal. The bandaid comes off and poof, it's like it never happened before.

But unfortunately, it doesn't seem that easy or it doesn't seem to happen that way. When we get emotionally scarred, it stays with us.

• If someone hurts us, we hold onto that.
• If someone disappoints us, we hold onto that. 
• If someone tramples our hearts, we let them. 

Where's the bandaid for that?

You are the bandaid. 

You are the source of the healing that you need. It's inside of you. So many times, people go through their lives shoving things under the carpet, hiding things in their heart, with emotional scabs all over their body, showing up in the form of obesity, physical conditions related to being obese, fat, cellulite. It's time to get out the bandaids.

• You keep the bandaid on it to keep it protected. 
• You change it when needed. 
• You may put some medicine on it. 
• You wait for it to heal. 
• It may hurt for a while, but it gets better. 

Do this with your emotional hurts. Get it out there. Let it heal. It may scab over and not be pretty, but it will heal.