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Ever find yourself "shoulding" on the past? As in, it shouldn't have happened the way it did, or I shouldn't have done that thing. We all do this at times and it can become a place of learned helplessness if we linger there too much. This quote from Peter Crone helps me to remember, what it meant for you cannot miss you. Find the lesson in it plus radical acceptance.

Poet David Gate wrote this and a good friend of mine sent it to me. I gotta say, I felt honored that it caused her to think of me!
Sometimes we can feel like we are too much, yet, you are here to be who you are, full strength. Social conditioning and status quo are hard things to challenge. Shame can get big. Courage and love are bigger. 

Tatramajjhattata is a Buddhist term which translates to "equanimity" or "neutrality of mind", balance, detachment. It's literal translation in English is "here in the middleness". I heard this on the Dan Harris podcast Ten Percent Happier with his guest Devin Berry. Just trying to say it can help you just be with whatever is troubling you rather than trying to run avoid it.