As you face your emotional wounds, you gain compassion for yourself even as you learn to put your hurts in perspective. The journey of emotional healing reveals hidden, subconscious lies, and as we slowly awaken and disentangle truths from lies, we realize how complex is our pain, our history, our decisions and conclusions that emerged from the pain. Once we gain compassion for ourselves, we naturally have compassion for other people. Finding compassion for self is a difficult and prolonged process, but the benefit of having compassion for others materializes almost immediately after that with no effort required. And then people, including our patients, know that our compassion for them is genuine.
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