“It is not always a refusal to grow that keeps us stuck.”

I came across this passage by Heidi Priebe recently that felt really useful to me. I thought I would share it in case it connects with you too: 

“It is not always a refusal to grow that keeps us stuck, but a refusal to grieve. 

Unprocessed pain about the past becomes unwarranted anxiety about the future. 

Until we understand why things happened the way they did, until we find a way to look back with acceptance, the present remains frozen in a state of resistance. We become i...