#530 The Alchemy of Healing: Breaking the Cycle of Hurt
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Alchemy of Healing: Breaking the Cycle of Hurt
Life can leave us with scars, some visible, some hidden deep inside. Today, we're going to talk about those scars, not as markers of weakness, but as maps of our journey. We'll explore how to navigate that journey towards healing, and how to break the cycle of hurt that so often gets passed down.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. As we journey through life, most of us, |
| 0:14.5 | maybe not all, but most of us go through times where other people hurt us. And sadly, |
| 0:20.6 | the people that hurt us are often the |
| 0:22.9 | ones that are supposed to be protecting us. And for most of us, there's little we can do to prevent |
| 0:28.6 | this hurt. For example, when we're a child and our father, when he drinks, beats us, hurts us, |
| 0:36.8 | does things that cause us pain. As a child, there's very |
| 0:40.8 | little we can do to stop this. Yes, other people can perhaps protect us like our other parent |
| 0:46.0 | or teachers or society, but for the most part, we ourselves when we're younger have very |
| 0:53.4 | little we can do to protect ourselves. |
| 0:55.9 | And usually abuse like this doesn't go on for the rest of our lives. There's a point where we're free of it. |
| 1:02.4 | We grow up and leave, we move away, or perhaps our parent changes and stops hurting us. |
| 1:09.8 | But at some point, we meet a crossroads. We consciously or unconsciously |
| 1:15.4 | decide how we're going to deal with this. Are we going to heal from it? Move on and make sure |
| 1:22.4 | it doesn't happen to us again, and that of course we never do this to anyone else or do we for what other unfathomable reason |
| 1:32.5 | pass this hurt on to the next generation to people in our lives now that we have power over |
| 1:40.3 | i know it sounds unconscionable how could we possibly hurt someone in the exact same way |
| 1:48.0 | we had been hurt, knowing the pain it caused us? And yet don't we all know people that have done |
| 1:56.3 | this? And the truth of it is, the person or or persons that hurt us, almost always, were hurt themselves. |
| 2:06.1 | This is what I'd like to explore together today, breaking the cycle of hurt by creating an alchemy of healing. |
| 2:13.9 | Let's begin my understanding what I mean by hurt. |
| 2:16.9 | There are, of course, different ways that people can hurt us. |
| 2:19.9 | Sometimes it's physical, sometimes it's emotional, sometimes it's relational. And though hurt is |
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