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What is Heartbreak?

Our hearts get poked from time to time.
“Ouch, you poked my heart!”

Sometimes, our hearts break,
and a broken heart can make us feel angry and sad.
It’s okay to feel angry, and it’s okay to feel sad.
We can feel these feelings without getting lost inside them.

Put your hand over your heart
and hold it gently,
the way you hold someone’s hand when they’re scared.

We can feel our anger and our sadness,
and then let them go.
We let the feelings go,
but we keep the lessons.

When our hearts break, they break open.
When our hearts break open, they can let in more love.

It’s okay for your heart to break. You can handle it.

-M. Grace
“From My Heart to Yours: Poems for Curious Minds”

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My Heart is Opening

It’s easy to be grateful for the blessings in my life

It’s harder to be grateful for the disappointments, tragedies, and loss

Each experience awakens a part of me – when I am willing

I am grateful for the sun, and I am grateful for the rain

They both nourish

When my heart breaks, it breaks open – allowing more love to flow in and out

I give thanks for the moments when I experience what love is not

I give thanks for the moments when I experience what love is

I am grateful.

Gratitude is the key.

My heart is opening.

-M. Grace

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Afraid

Take a deep breath. It’s okay to be afraid.

Feeling afraid is a temporary feeling: It doesn’t last forever.

Take another deep breath. You can handle your fear.

Fear tells us when we are in danger and that something is unsafe,

like going into water that is too deep, or climbing a mountain without the right equipment.

Sometimes, though, we think fear is keeping us safe, but it’s keeping us small.

And it can be hard to know the difference.

Our hearts always know what is true.

Fear is a part of life.

It can teach us about ourselves if we are willing to receive it’s lessons.

Remember to listen to your heart.

-M. Grace

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Ebb & Flow

The people in our lives to whom we bare our souls –

open, welcoming, and free from our judgments

In time can become strangers to whom we build walls against –

closed, unwilling, and prisoners of our self-limiting beliefs

A mind that turns on itself, questioning if any of it was real

The mind cannot know

Only the heart can know

The ebb and flow

Constricting and expanding

Remembering and forgetting

It is here, in this sacred place of present-hood, where possibility lives and our essence resides

Here, to this moment, we must return

Leave past shame

Leave future worry

Come. Here. Now.

To this moment

-M. Grace

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Intent & Impact

If my intent is to blame or judge myself and others, the energy is unconscious.

The vicious cycle continues.

If my intent is to respect and love myself and others, the energy is conscious.

This is the act of healing and transformation.

Know my intent because it creates the impact.

I judge her, so she judges me

What part of me am I unwilling to accept? The part of her that I judge.

We are faithful mirrors to each other.

It is not her rejection that hurts: It is self-rejection that causes my suffering.

-M. Grace

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Walk of Faith

This is a walk of faith.

There are no guarantees.

In a moment, things can change.

I let go of the demands and requirements

that this moment be different from what it is.

-M. Grace

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Choice

There is more to be grateful for than there is to complain about.

Yes, I am having a hard time. Yes, I feel overwhelmed.

Stop. Breathe.

I can choose to be here for myself. What do I need?

I want to keep going, but I need to rest.

I am learning to support what I need instead of what I want, without judgment.

This is how I take care of myself.

I can feel the pain, anger, and frustration, but I do not need to ruminate and suffer.

I have a choice.

-M. Grace

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Eyes-Wide-Open Faith

Fear is a teacher.

When fear brings us to a point where we see how we do not love ourselves, we have received its teaching.

The belief that fear, anger, and stress can hurt me causes my suffering.

Underneath my anger is sadness. Underneath my sadness is fear.

I can feel the sadness and hold myself gently. I let go of fear’s hand.

I do not need to know anything. I have faith.

Not blind faith

Eyes-wide-open-faith

-M. Grace

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Believing Is Seeing

From the center of my heart,

I can see the gifts that fear shows me in the Mirror of Distortions.

From the center of my doubt,

The distorted images are who I am.

It’s a choice: Which image do I believe in?

Believing IS seeing.

-M. Grace

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Faithful Mirror

When we make amends, we are making amends inside of ourselves

Self-forgiveness and self-compassion first, then we can open our hearts to others,

without demands and requirements.

My task is to be free from my judgments, reactions,

and the false belief that I am not good enough.

This is self-loving.

There is nothing to forgive outside of ourselves.

If someone makes amends to me, I can hear it and say, “Thank you.”

It’s not about me. They are mending from within when they ask for forgiveness.

What I do with their amends becomes my issue.

I have amends to make in my own heart.

They have been a faithful mirror.

-M. Grace

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