Good good-byes

Loved ones who pass away.

Best friends who move away.

Life brings change.

And we say goodbye to how things used to be.

The question is not whether or not we say goodbye.

The real question is, “How do we feel after the goodbye is said?”

Because the quality of our goodbye is proportionate to the state of ease we experience thereafter and tension increases in the absence of resolution. Ease is the cure of tension-related disease.

And all diseases are related to tension.

Last year, I got to interview a clinical psychologist and friend, Dr. Gladys Ato, who had written a book titled “The Good Goodbye: How to Navigate Change and Loss in Life, Love, and Work“. [See the interview here] [get her book here]