After We Break

We’ve all heard the wisdom about the saplings that are flexible enough to bend without breaking, but the fact of the matter is that sometimes we just break. The question, then, becomes how we can thrive with the branches that are left.

What has helped you keep going after an experience of brokenness?

4 thoughts on “After We Break”

  1. After hard experiences have occurred, I focused on just doing the next thing. Only one, and one at a time. It helped me focus on a single do-able thing, even if it was only taking a shower. And it gave em a break from looking at the whole situation and becoming, or staying overwhelmed.

  2. I have allowed myself to grieve after a break up or another kind of disappointment. I was fortunate , though, to be working so each week I HAD to go somewhere and be with other people. I didn’t give up going and I think that my friends at work understood that I was grieving but they didn’t talk about it; they just were there for me to get over the experience and it helped me so much..

  3. Perhaps it’s my age, but at this point I view “broken” as something that needed pruning and thus concentrate on what is not broken since that is what needs to flourish. This may sound a bit “snobbish” or “arrogant” and I don’t mean it that way. With only so much energy, I must concentrate on what continues to be alive and support its growth and health.

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