The Feeling Isn't Final

One of the hardest things about difficult emotions is believing they might never end. But impermanence offers another way to understand what we're going through. Dora reflects on how the constantly changing weather of the Azores helped her see that nothing stays exactly as it is. The sunshine passes, the fog lifts, and the rain eventually stops. Our emotional lives move in much the same way. This doesn't make the hard moments easy, but it can remind us that what we're feeling right now doesn't define what comes next.

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