Wow you are such an empowering person @holisticmum!!! This post is very helpful and motivating. I love your awesome comparison using that tree stump that got chopped off.

I agree with this and am gladly be reminded about it:

We are of no benefit to the system if we are broken. So they sticky-tape us up with pills and label us into categories of our conditions. They only treat the symptom that they have created. They would never treat the cause. Because they are a huge contributory factor to the cause and if we were to truly free ourselves from it then their control over us would fail.

It is true that modern world system has taught us to treat symptoms and not heal the root problem. So many good truths in this post!!!

We can chose to empower ourselves, to accept that we cannot change the past, to look at what we could have done differently and discover better ways to move on. These are all character building skills that will help us 'regrow' our shoots.

resteemed really hope this post gets noticed and get the upvotes it truly deserves! :)