Healing Spirals

Jeff Levy, LCSW
(originally posted on Branching Out: The Live Oak Blog, January 2015)

Endings and beginnings serve a purpose.  They punctuate change.  They allow us to put a hard stop on a process that has been painful.  They invite us to start anew with a fresh perspective.  They allow us to celebrate accomplishments.  They enable us to set goals for further accomplishments.
 
Still, as I let my thinking wander, I realize that endings and beginnings, despite the externally created structures, are often self-imposed.  In fact, it might be equally important to acknowledge that some things shouldn’t or even don’t end.  In some instances, in seeking a finite ending, we actually experience even greater distress.

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