Sitting with what you cannot release is a good choice.

Sometimes life hands us challenges that refuse to let go—or perhaps we cannot let them go. Stress lingers. Discomfort settles in. Anger simmers beneath the surface, no matter how many deep breaths or affirmations we repeat.

When we cannot release what troubles us, maybe we’re not meant to. Not yet.
Perhaps the invitation is different: to sit with it instead and live inside the discomfort intentionally.

This isn’t about wallowing or surrendering to suffering. It’s about recognizing that some experiences arrive as teachers, bearing lessons about us, others, and our world. The pain points to something worth examining.

So we sit. We feel the full weight of it—the frustration, the hurt, the confusion. We don’t push it away or numb it out. We study it like students of science looking for understanding and answers.

What are the details here?

What are the facts versus the stories we’ve layered on top?

What truth lives beneath our initial reactions?

Why did this happen? Why now? Why to me?

These aren’t questions of victimhood but of understanding. When we examine our challenges with curiosity instead of resistance, something shifts. We begin to see patterns. We recognize our part. We understand others’ perspectives, even when we disagree.

This kind of knowing—honest, unflinching, compassion—brings something release never could: peace. Not the peace of forgetting, but the more profound peace of understanding and clarity.

Sometimes, wisdom requires that we stop trying to escape and simply sit down beside what troubles us.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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