I'm Back

Alright.
I have been a blogging failure the past couple months.
However, I will say with good reason.
I'm just sooooooooooooooooooooooo busy.
really. grad school is kinda kicking my butt.
And since the purpose of this blog is to document my road of emotional healing, sometimes there's not much to say and other times there's lots and lots to share.
The past couple months have been smooth and pretty easy, and sometimes confusing.  I think because I am seeing a therapist and in school to be one, I am occasionally overloaded with information about emotional health.  I have had to take a step back and stop thinking about myself so much.
So I have focused on applying some things I have learned in my emotional digging.  I have been attending a weekly get together with women from church, building relationship and fellowship (IT HAS BEEN SO RESTORATIVE!).
I have learned that one huge component of emotional healing is having emotionally restorative relationships.  So where I have been betrayed, gossiped about, misunderstood and misjudged, I have surrounded myself with people who are confidential, faithful, understanding and empathetic.  This is key to being transformed.  I have developed the bandwidth to forgive and move forward in more painful relationships through the support and love I have gained in healthy ones. 
to make one thing clear, my healthy relationships are not the forum to vent about my hurtful relationships.  I have been open and honest that I am working through emotional setbacks, but gossip is never beneficial and never healing.
Instead, just experiencing love and support where I have needed it has been just the ticket, giving me a new found confidence to apply my new relational tools.

there is a lot more to say.
Especially about what I have been learning about attachment and how it applies to our relationships with God.  In a week I'm preaching at our college group about suffering well.  During that talk I'm going to develop these idea's, and I think I'll post my notes here so you can see what I've learned concerning attachment, God and suffering (in whatever form our sufferings come in).

That's all for now.  Just an update for you all.

Love.
Meghan