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3 Life Tips From a Holocaust Survivor to Minimize Your Suffering
So simple, yet incredibly important reminders we all need to hear.
These wise messages from a woman who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp came to me at the perfect timing today. I feel it’s important to share these messages because these days, I find that we’re complicating mental health and healing too much.
What’s the right way to react? What’s the appropriate way to speak to someone when you’re angry? We can’t use so many words like, “can’t” or “should” or “never” or “you” we have to preface everything with “I feel” to not make the other person defensive.
We’re sold pills to calm us, energize us, make us more balanced, and think more clearly. We’re sold prescriptions to make us “happier” when really they numb us and don’t solve the deep issues that got us here in the first place. We think we require therapy and either can’t afford it or it becomes our crutch.
Sure, all of the above can be helpful but it can also be extremely overwhelming.
Sometimes it’s good to just pause and simplify. Sometimes it’s best to listen to a nearly 100-year-old woman, who has been through horrifying things beyond our imagination and has pulled through as a grateful woman, with her heart open wide to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren – and the rest of the world, despite her life story.
