Danielle’s Story from the book:
How We Got Happy
Read about Danielle’s journey through loss, depression and an eating disorder to finding greater self-awareness, stability, purpose, forgiveness, happiness and spirituality.
I see healing as being like an onion - it has layers. Tools, like forgiveness, give me the ability to access those deeper layers so that I can deal with things better when an upsetting situation occurs. Rather than being stuck in the emotions or mental issues for months or longer, I can process things in a healthy way and move forward, and spend less time dwelling on the negatives. For me, this is again where I have built massive trust in this road less travelled; it really has been a life changer!
I believe a person’s spiritual self is a greater being than their physical self can ever be. And as far as I’m concerned, if I’m not in touch with that at all, then of course I’m going to feel incomplete, and have a sense of searching.
Being in touch with myself and grounding into my spiritual self fills in that gap, and forms that base upon which I can build a stable, peaceful and love-filled life.