It’s ok to let go of people, and it’s ok if people let go of you. They have that right.
Do you know that its okay to let go of people and not have them back in your life, regardless of who they are? It could be a partner, it could be in a friendship, it could be a parent, it could be a sibling. It is okay to let go of anyone that no longer serves a healthy purpose in your life. Now, when you do that, you should do it in a healthy way
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:36
It was the right thing, and same vice versa. But I think it's hard also because there's obviously a huge emotional shift, I think, when it's one sided. And sometimes, you know, you should be letting go of a person, like, you know that the relationship or whatever partnership is not healthy, but you're scared, and there's a degree of comfort or of fear of the unknown if you were to separate from this person
Keisean Raines
@KeiseanRaines · 3:22
And so it's necessary to modify or in some cases sever relationships that are depleting. And so what happens is oftentimes we believe that we're not supposed to sever relationships or create very strict, maybe sometimes rigid and uncomfortable boundaries for ourselves that disrupt relationships with family members. In particular, we tell ourselves that, oh, it's family, and oh, that's your sister, or that's your parent or that's your child
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Hi, Keisean. Beautiful perspective, and I agree with you. Also, something that stuck out to me is your last two sentences, you know, what you said, and I'm paraphrasing releasing them with love. And that is something that I've practiced before, and I'm not even sure if understand how important that is. But if somebody does something to me, and that is not always the case, because we're humans and our natural responses to lash back
So although it's okay to let go of people and it's okay to accept when people have let go of you, I think there is a level of grace and mercy that we need to extend to each other that has just completely been thrown out the water, out of the window with the bathwater. And so I'm just mindful of that. I'm just mindful that in the process of letting go, that I'm doing it with the right intentions