This mysterious word is soul... No one has seen it, but everyone has heard about it, they know it. She has no place in the body, but it is conventionally considered that she “lives” behind the sternum. And everyone knows how much it hurts, soul. The pain of the soul is a way to pay attention, to see what’s wrong? And understand what and how I can change? Outwardly, a person whose soul hurts may be no different from others. Just like everyone else - going to work, raising children, doing household chores, communicating with others, trying to watch movies or read books... And only he alone knows what is hidden under this external “normality”. When the soul hurts, thoughts are confused, go off scale feelings, the body reacts with symptoms. It may seem to you that everything is against you. Or no one cares at all about you or your pain, and you are alone with it, drawn out, endless, pulsating, freezing or burning to the ground. You can feel your helplessness and freeze. Just function - like a robot, traveling around the usual circle of life. And forget over time that you are alive and once knew how to rejoice and be happy. You may be afraid or worried, and then you will begin to run away from everything and everyone that seems unsafe to you. Active life will gradually be replaced by the quiet life of a gray mouse in a cozy hole. It seems safe, but this is not what you dreamed of, is it? Sometimes you can feel an itchy irritation that develops into anger and anger. And then you make a decision - to throw it out on others or just quietly drink yourself, destroying yourself from the inside. Complex feelings can incinerate you - resentment, shame, guilt and others. And, if you find it difficult to withstand them, you can “turn them off.” But along with them, joy will also turn off... What to do if your soul hurts? Place your left hand on the place where your soul “lives”. Feel the warmth of your hand in your soul. The most important word for you now is MERCY. Be merciful to yourself, because who, if not You? Who, if not you, will support you? Who, if not you, will forgive you for everything you blamed yourself for and were ashamed of? Who, if not you, will believe in you, even if it seems that no one believes in you anymore? And me. I also believe in You. Just like once upon a time my first psychologist believed in me. How to heal a sick soul? Ask someone who knows how and loves to do it. Sincerely, psychologist Elena Shevchenko Book a consultation by phone: +7-928-449-11-48 (any messenger)