The Fighting for, and The Rescuing of Our Hearts

I was sitting on a bench. With a friend who is going through three different heartbreaks. Hard, gut-wrenching situations, that happened to her one after another, within the span of a year. Death, the end of a friendship, and the physical distance from family members.

“How does it get better?” she asks, “Where do I start?”

Me, I went through something similar three years ago. Multiple devastations. One short period of time. I know how hard it is.

Go outside. Read. Move. Feel.

I told her. These are the things that help me when I’m lost. Which, I admit, happens often. These are the things that help me fight for me. 

Trees, sun, birds, squirrels. Seems simple until you spend the day outside and see how it heals. The sun recharges. Gives hope. Where there is sun, there is room to grow. 

Reading and exercising are a part of the same line of thought: fill your time with things that are good. This leads me to a bigger point: avoid social media. Because I know that when I’m anxious, my resort is to go to my phone. I spend all day there and hope that by the end of it those hard feelings will be gone.

Oh, but they won’t be.

You’ll find yourself asking: why does my heart still hurt? 

Instead, the best thing is to stand up. Fight for, and rescue your heart. Put in the work. Wake up early. Hop on a yoga mat. Go for a run.

Ann Voskamp asks, “What if abundant living isn’t about what you can expect from life, but what life can expect from you?”

Healing is the same. It’s not about what the healing can do for you. 

What can you do, to help the healing?

What can you do, to fight for your heart?

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By: Gabriela Gueorguiev

P.S: If you’re looking for a good book, Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho is THE book that helped me heal.

“What is success?" poses the Copt. "It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”

― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra