Day 15 - Managing darts...


In today’s chapter from Rick Hanson’s book Resilient, he breaks down two kinds of pain: first darts and second darts. First darts are the inevitable stuff, life’s little gut punches. Something hard happens. It stings. You can’t control it. Second darts are what we throw afterward. The rumination. The self-blame. The spiral. I had my own first dart a few days ago. A bathroom incident. Not going to get into the details, but it knocked me off center. The second dart was worse. My brain replaying...