I have a friend who used to walk around everyday, all the time, smiling and perky. Sometimes I just want to slap her and say, “Really? Are you always this happy? Do you wake up this way? Isn’t there anything in your life that brings you down?”
One time, I actually got the nerve to ask. Her reply, “I love life! I wake up everyday like a kid on Christmas morning. I just can’t wait to see what life will bring me.” I just shook my head and thought, I wonder what’s underneath all that denial. I’m certain I don’t want to be there when the large bolder gets rolled away.
As she stayed friends with me until her death, I watched and waited. She had a boyfriend for whom she divorced her husband of twenty years. He was moving to Nashville to live with her. They had been dating and in love for two years by this time.
When he moved in, he had an anger problem that unraveled within months. One day, he got so angry that he pushed her down the steps. This led her to, of course, kick him out and break up. It also led her to therapy.
After the first few weeks of going through the pain of falling down the steps and the hurt of a break-up, the therapist began to help her remove the blocks (the denial) to her anger. The pain was so deep and so thick that when she would discuss it with me, I could only take it in doses. She was mad at almost everyone in her life, especially her family.
Eventually, she wound up with stage four colon cancer, (I’d assume from all of the pent-up rage). The cancer surged through her body in one year and consumed her life.
I tell this story, because this was one of my best friends in the world. I watched as if this lesson was for me. How much anger did I have hidden? What exactly would I do with those feelings when I found them? I decided to go to therapy and begin the search.
What I discovered was that behind each layer of denial was something painful. And, when I dealt with whatever issue I had, the lessons became deeper and richer. One by one, step-by-step, as I unloaded the hidden grief, I felt lighter and less burdened.
Maybe I couldn’t smile and be a bright beacon 24-7 to all of my friends and family. But I was being authentic, which was way more important for anyone to see. Each lesson I learned, ultimately, became the building blocks that secured the mainframe of my own sanity and made me the life coach I am today.
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