Judith Sills Let It Go Summary

For my summary paper I chose the article "Let It Go" by Judith Sills Ph. D. Sills is a Media psychologist, keynoter & workplace consultant, Judith Sills, Ph.D, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way, a clear guide to your own character pitfalls & a road map for steering around those of your staff & colleagues. They is author of other popular psychology books. In this article Sills mostly focuses on the science of past hurts and prior injuries in others life and how the has a way of keeping us stuck in our tracks, which then stops us from moving forward and being able to experience joy in our lives. This article connects to psychology in a huge way because this topic brought up by Sills

They count a lot, sure. But so do the steps forward a person is willing to take and how much effort he or she is willing to expend to push some emotional rock up, up, and out of the way." This really connected to me in the way that for a person like myself when something bad happens to me that effects me a lot in my life the first thing I want to do is forget about the situation like ever happened, but for me that is really hard because sometimes depending on the situation it tends to replay in mind of what has happened. Which not only stop me from forgetting about the situation, but also makes me more upset as well. So now on after looking at this quote I'm going to instead of just forgetting about the situation I am going to try move forward from the situation by doing something active that makes me enjoy life, or

Reason because this is the stage where you should officially let the situation go that happened in the past. One solid way to get past the past is to restore to a better whole those that impact your life and that mean a lot to you. For example, whether from disuse, misunderstanding, or a reluctance to see your part in a past conflict. Such as you were consistently mean to a sibling, harsh with a parent, abusive to an ex, or unsupportive to a friend that needed your help at the time. What I had compare this to is some what similar to maybe confessing to a priest about sins you’ve done in the past, because sometimes the hardest person to forgive in your life could sometimes be yourself. Record your decision to forgive, or tell a significant person in your life. Write a letter to the who hurt you & tell him or her exactly the way you were wronged. Include your new narrative that tells your transformed story. The repair steps may or may not restore the relationship. Lots of other factors will decide that outcome. But it is a way to put that part of the past behind