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  • Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’

    John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.78, Health Communications, Inc.