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Finding Your Way Back To Your Rightful Place

Free will is the most dangerous gift ever granted to Mankind. Because, left to ourselves, we make the most unbelievable, obscure, choices at times.

Jeff Crume
5 min readJun 21, 2019
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

When you’ve been hurt — deeply hurt — by life, by someone, or even by yourself, you need to relearn how to love.

You become numb. In the presence of what used to “turn you on” you feel nothing. Nothing inspires you. Nothing motivates you. You can’t muster the slightest glimmer of hope. Withdrawn. Isolated. Numb. You simply exist.

Prolonged disappointment causes some of our deepest hurts.

You gather your expectation, thrust your best foot forward and…, nothing! You muster the courage and the strength, convince yourself it’s worth trying again and…, nothing!

Nothing after nothing, year after year, leaves one destitute.

Expecting everything and receiving nothing crushes the human spirit. Prolonged effort left unrewarded is like giving birth to a stillborn. Every fiber in your being forgets how to hope. How to believe. How to love. Every part of you forgets what feels like to be fulfilled. You know in the center of your being you were designed for more, but nothing, absolutely nothing you do seems to…

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Jeff Crume
Jeff Crume

Written by Jeff Crume

Certified Grief & Crisis Counselor, Transformational Speaker, & Intuitive Life Coach. Sharing hope, spreading kindness, and empowering possibility.

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