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Opening Your Heart During Trying Times: A Path to Healing and Resilience

Life has a way of testing us. Whether through personal loss, heartbreak, uncertainty, or collective crises, trying times challenge our outer lives and our inner world.
Shelia Murray

by Shelia Murray

Opening Your Heart During Trying Times: A Path to Healing and Resilience

Life has a way of testing us. Whether through personal loss, heartbreak, uncertainty, or collective crises, trying times challenge our outer lives and our inner world. In such moments, it may feel safer to shut down emotionally, to guard ourselves from further pain. And yet, it is precisely during these times that opening our hearts, rather than closing them, is a powerful act of resilience and healing.

Here are several meaningful ways to open your heart when life gets hard:

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