Emotional Health

Good day to you.
I am currently part of a sessional men's discussion group that meets weekly. The primary theme is health and wellness - physical, relati0nal, emotional, mental, etc.
Here is a short composition that captures some personal reflections from our conversation about emotional health and healing....

HEALING WITHIN 
By David A. McAdam
 
There are strong feelings, intricately tied / To hurts or wounds that we’ve received 
None of us is exempted from such pains / That suffer our hearts to be grieved 
 
Sometimes, the wounds are long-lived and hidden / And festering, they’re hard to heal
But personal wholeness demands of us / To wisely address this ordeal 
 
See, shying from or ignoring the need / To fully face our woundedness
Invokes severe paralysis, and a / Sense of personal helplessness
 
Healing necessitates refocusing / Being courageous and astute 
Staying wholly honest with ourselves, and / Giving up rights to retribute 
 
Notably, guilt is about who we are / While shame is about how we feel
Concerning hurts and misplays of the past / As memories, these stay quite real 
 
Not bearing guilt for another’s misdeed / Will prompt a freeing attitude
And woundedness shifts from a source of shame / To a wellspring of servitude
 
Wounds are cracks through which light enters the soul / To purify and bring repair
The victim-victimizer cycle ends / As by grace, we cease from despair  
 
© 2025 - davidmcadam.ca


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