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Can I Let This Hurt go

DearJames,

Is it normal to love your mother but dislike her at the same time? Is it normal to still be grieving for the loss of my father, both brothers, and my grandparents and yet still hold anger towards my mother who was so hateful towards my father when he was ill with pancreatic cancer?

She was so hateful towards my youngest brother, even speaking badly over his dead body to the nurse.  Why is she so angry? I don’t think she understands that her prescription medication addiction has taken control of her life, and I am angry.

Help me understand her as I feel she hates me. Is it just the pill addiction or does she also have traits of schizophrenia much like her uncle and father? I need to understand.

I’m 55 and I still feel like my mother doesn’t love me. How much longer does my mother have on this earth? She is miserable and unhappy. She never leaves her house and speaks about loved ones who have passed on like they are still in the present.

What have I done? How do I forgive and accept a woman who is so negative and angry all the time? Perhaps if I could understand her mental state I could better understand her. My entire life I have tried to understand her, and I have been physically and emotionally abused by her.

Can I let this hurt go? I want to.

Anonymous

Dear Can I Let This Hurt Go,

You can and you must.

Holding onto any type of anger, rage, hurt, hate, and resentment is incredibly toxic to you. While you may be baffled in the present as to why you would have entered into such a soul agreement with your mother, the answer is quite simple.

You desired to experience and understand forgiveness on a grand scale.

To forgive, you must be willing to see beyond what lies on the surface. You must pierce the veils of illusion to see and embrace the deeper life lessons and gifts on offer. You must understand their divine neutrality on a soul level. You must choose to dive deeper.

This is especially true when the life experiences and lessons are cloaked in a veil of opposites. Often, our greatest lessons are experienced and achieved through its opposite. Hardship versus ease. Fear versus faith. Anger, harm, and resentment versus love, acceptance, and kindness.

By seeing through these illusions, your mother’s words, actions, deeds, and addiction(s), you free yourself from their enslavement. You see how deeply wounded she is. Hurt people hurt people. This does not mean that you accept and condone her words, actions, and behavior, but rather you understand their source and origin at a deeper level. It is never what it appears to be on the surface.

Transcend the lesson don’t become it. Liberate yourself by seeing the entirety of your experience through new eyes. Cease looking outwardly for the explanations, answers, love, acceptance, and approval you seek. Instead, discover it waiting patiently within you.

None of the resolution you seek is dependent upon your mother changing. Is it easier to achieve, possibly. However, it is only your desire for it to achieved in this manner that prevents you from receiving it another way. Forgiveness is either a formidable foe or heaven-sent ally. Whether it is achieved through hardship, surrender, or supplication need not matter. It’s many gifts remain the same.

On a soul level, your mother is but a character in your own play, playing the role you asked of her. When you have deep gratitude for her playing her role so brilliantly, you will have achieved your soul’s purpose; to experience the greatness of forgiveness through its opposite. The truth of this is willingly accepted when the experience(s) are deemed “positive” in nature. They are equally summarily shunned, dismissed, and denied when experienced through the cloak of an opposite, a perceived “negative” experience.

Is it normal to love your mother or any other human for that matter but not like them, absolutely. The phrase “I love you, but I don’t like you right now” springs to mind. And just because you love someone doesn’t mean you must subject yourself to their ongoing harmful behavior. We can experience, transcend, and release a lesson in a nanosecond or a lifetime, the choice is ours.

We are all here to learn from one another. To experience life in a constant state of reciprocity. Reciprocity between humans and reciprocity between us and source, the unseen, the All That Is. With any life lesson, you’ll know when you are prepared and ready to release it. When you are, do so with confidence, peace, and a resolute commitment to not repeat it as the Universe will certainly test you just to be sure.

In the end, gratitude will be your victory, forgiveness, your helping hand, and source your saving grace.

Many heartfelt blessings to you.

DearJames®