{"id":8872,"date":"2019-09-19T23:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2019-09-19T23:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:41:52","slug":"time-heals-almost-everything-give-it-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/time-heals-almost-everything-give-it-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Heals Almost Everything, Give It Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTime heals almost everything, give it time.\u201d \u00a0-Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cHow are you doing?\u201d I asked.\u00a0 My friend proceeded to tell me of the tremendous hardships she\u2019s going through this week and then concluded by saying \u201cSorry you asked I bet.\u201d\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t at all sorry I asked – I was grateful she trusted me enough to share her hurt with me.\u00a0 The only thing I was sorry about was that my friend was hurting and all l I could do was express how much I loved her and how sorry I was that she was for what she was going through.<\/p>\n

There are some hurts in life that are so painful it feels like we can\u2019t breathe.\u00a0 Losing someone you love is a perfect example.\u00a0 Being betrayed by someone you trusted is another. Those aren\u2019t hurts someone else can fix or take away the pain of. What I\u2019ve found is that those type of hurts only get better with time, which is frustrating because time is the one thing we can\u2019t speed up\u2026we have to just allow it to happen\u2026and that takes, well, time\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so all you can do when you are facing hurt like that is to force yourself to move forward, pushing through the hurt and trusting that with each new day that pain will get a little easier to bear\u2026then one day you will find that the pain has lessened\u2026I don\u2019t know that it ever completely disappears but it lessens enough that joy can come back in.<\/p>\n

When I\u2019m going through especially difficult times I often turn to music with inspirational messages to help me through. One example is a song by Jon McLaughlin called \u201cJust Give It Time\u201d. Here is an excerpt from his song:<\/p>\n

\u201cStill waters, heavy hearts
Plans we make all fall apart
Disillusioned and lost in the gray
How can we fix the heart when it breaks
Don’t know how much more you can take

Just give it time
It’s gonna get better
Now is not forever at all
Just give it time
Everything changes
Tomorrow comes today will be gone
Everything’s gonna be alright
Just give it time, Give it time\u201d<\/p>\n

If you are hurting, give it time. And know that it will get better\u2026.day by day\u2026there is joy ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTime heals almost everything, give it time.\u201d \u00a0-Unknown \u00a0\u201cHow are you doing?\u201d I asked.\u00a0 My friend proceeded to tell me of the tremendous hardships she\u2019s going through this week and then concluded by saying \u201cSorry you asked I bet.\u201d\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t at all sorry I asked – I was grateful she trusted me enough to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,4995,1121,778,4604,21935,103,766,21934,21932,21928,13847,1109,545,21931,9501,21936,1662,21933,11703,21929,21930],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-betrayal","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-depression","tag-heartache","tag-how-much-more-you-can-take","tag-hurt","tag-inspiring","tag-jon-mclaughlin","tag-joy-comes-back-in","tag-just-give-it-time","tag-losing-a-loved-one","tag-loss","tag-move-forward","tag-no-magic-pill","tag-one-day-at-a-time","tag-power-of-music","tag-sadness","tag-there-will-be-joy","tag-time-heals-all-wounds","tag-time-is-the-great-healer","tag-you-cant-rush-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11659,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions\/11659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}