Don’t “Get over it!” Get inside of it. Get to the heart of it. Get through it. Your painful story is not some hurdle to jump over. It’s not a pole to vault. It’s a lived experience that longs for your attention. It’s a trauma that awaits your compassion. It’s an embodied truth that demands to be expressed. So next time someone tells you to “get over it”, just say NO. And then tell them to “get over” their need to trivialize other people’s challenges. Ask them to look deeply at how this repressive mantra has prevented them from healing their own wounds. They are unlikely to know, but the seed you plant may well yield fruits when the moment is ripe. - Jeff Brown