Overcoming Narcissistic Abuse: Endings

This reflection helps persons who want to end narcissistic relationships to explore and find the courage to move forward. No mud, no lotus. Detaching is difficult, yet is the only way to become free. Letting go of roles, functions, and familiar patterns is not easy.

However, new beginnings are possible.

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Endings.

What if endings are just part of beginnings?

What if endings open up new paths?

What if endings produce the mud for new lotus flowers to bloom?

Why do we fear or grieve endings so much?

We might have gotten attached to the familiar.

We might have taken the status quo for given.

We might have identified completely with roles and functions.

Endings can be painful as they mean we need to detach.

We need to dis-identify and take nothing for given or granted anymore.

Endings can also be hopeful as they mean a new beginning,

An open door and a muddy journey filled with growth and new beauty.