Pain is Inevitable. Suffering is Optional.

Jan 25 / Diana Kat Linquist Pifer
As Adopted People, we know Pain.  Emotional Pain.  Physical Pain.  Mental Pain.

This isn’t a new revelation.  However, many Adopted People don’t know HOW to move through their pain, and into joy. 

They feel stuck on a never-ending loop, where Pain is the Modus Operandum.   Pain is the driver of every aspect of their life.

Chronic pain takes its toll.  For anyone who experiences daily physical pain, even “low level” pain, they also know the mental and emotional impact is has.

Adopted people, who experience daily emotional pain, have grown to feel it mentally and physically as well.  It's the "chronic ache".

Again, I know I’m not saying something new… I am acknowledging the current reality. And it IS ONLY a CURRENT Reality. 

It does NOT have to CONTINUE this way. What most people don’t know about “healing” is that it is a journey THROUGH, not a “Getting Rid Of” experience.
When people think about physical healing, they think about a broken bone, which is set in a cast (something outside), then grows back together and the pain is relieved, the bone once again able to function.  The pain is “gone”.  The Cast is then removed.  And you are “Healed”.

This perspective of healing has been applied to emotional and mental healing.  Which doesn’t work.

Emotional Healing is Different   

The Emotional Pain we feel is not because we are “broken” or “flawed” or “unfit” in some way. The pain comes from seeing ourselves this way, when our Higher Self does not.

The Emotional Healing Journey is an Inside experience. Most was to apply a “cast”, something from the outside to “fix the problem” (such as finding your biological family)

Ut oh… here we go… Into the “metaphysical realm”… Yes. There is a spiritual or energetic aspect to you that exists, and it operated differently than our “human part”.

The experience of Pain is a Human one. Our spiritual part does not see pain in the same way. It only sees it “as an experience”, without judgment or blame.
The Human experience begins with pain… the pain of being born. An experience both mother and child have. This is our introduction into physical life. Pain.

Humans can handle a tremendous amount of pain, although we don’t prefer it. Our ancestors endured MUCH more pain than we modern humans could even imagine.

Perhaps something they learned was how to Move Through the Pain and With the Pain, rather than resist it. When we learn how to accept pain as a part of our experience here on Earth, and can allow the pain to be there, acknowledge it, feel it, even briefly embrace it, then CHOOSE to let it go, THAT is healing.

When we have lived in Chronic Pain for most, if not all of our lives, the thought of “embracing and accepting the pain” feels hard, feels wrong, and most of feels scary.

Suffering is Optional

What if I go “too deep”?  What if I can’t “get out” from under it. What if  I “drown” in it? These fears come from not knowing how to move through Pain. 

So you continue to Suffer.

Along my journey, something that has been crucial to my experience has been the element of Hope.  By holding on to Hope – I can move through anything. 

Hope allows me to believe that something better is on the other side.  Hope says, "keep going", even when the evidence isn’t clear, or exists at all.  Hope brings me comfort, because when I hold it, and believe it, and trust it… then what I experience is a “moving through” into the space beyond the Pain.

Belief and Trust, you say?  Things I don’t have… Maybe not, in this moment. 

Remember LIFE is a journey.  You can Choose to live the pathway you have been living… and Suffering in. Or you can CHOOSE a different Path:

To Move THROUGH the Pain and Let Go of Suffering. 


Take a path to learn how to develop Hope, Trust, and shift your beliefs so you can live your life Moving Beyond Adoption.  The Choice is yours.  It really is...
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