You know a bruised spirit is not a broken spirit.

A bruised spirit is not a broken spirit and some of us are bruised right now.

We're a little tender.

And when the spirit is bruised we feel like what are we supposed to do?

It can feel like an invisible weight that we carry within a tender spot that nobody can see, only feel. We put a smile on and we even forget until a trigger touches that tender spot and we become aware again that our spirit is bruised. A bruised spirit are the unseen marks left by life's trials and tribulations, by our experiences, our heartbreaks, and our aches.

But just like any bruise, it can heal.

Anytime you have bruise yourself, you know, got a little cut on your finger,

what happened?

The body heals itself.

It's a healing mechanism. It's amazing.

And your spirit has that ability to.

Your spirit may be feeling bruised today down and out but no it has the power to renew itself.

You just have to place energy in the direction that matters.

First we got to acknowledge its presence.

Remove the thick clouds, loosen the grip on our vices.

You know, sometimes we overeat emotionally, you know, we may fall into all the smoking and the over drinking to cloud our mind and body and spirit because we're trying to numb ourselves in those moments from feeling that tender spot.

But we can't address, we cannot heal, but we don't allow ourselves to feel.

So we remove and we loosen, we loosen those grips on our vices that have clouded us from reality, from the simple truth that our spirit is bruised, you know, that it's feeling vulnerable, that our light has dimmed.

You know, a bruised spirit is an uncomfortable feeling.

You know, it feels like something is wrong.

Although we may not have the words to place to it. It just lingers. Even those who care and are in

tune with us can notice. You could have a smile on your face but they know something's

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