Had a wonderful conversation with a good friend today - and we covered many topics - but what stayed with me on my drive home (my no food in the car drive home) was our chat about past hurts. This comes from Geneen Roth's book Women Fodd and God but is applicable to so many situations. And it is so simple. The past is over with. It can not be changed. No matter how much I wish certain things had not happened, that certain people did not do the things they did - stuff happened to me and around me and a lot of it was painful but it's over. I will never suffer that particular hurt again. So I can choose to wallow in the pain of the past and for me there is a lot of it - or I can choose to get on with it. Wallowing leads to binging. Moving on leads to health. Easy decision. Tough to keep on the path.
But I kept on the path today.