how to let go of the past

6/13/20251 min read

white concrete building during daytime
white concrete building during daytime
How to Let Go of the Past

Letting go of the past about no longer allowing those experiences to control who you are now. It's not a journey of forgetting.

Too many people are dragging old versions of themselves into new seasons. Reliving the pain. Replaying the betrayal. Rehearsing the guilt like it’s part of their identity. But the truth is, you can’t receive what’s incoming, if your hands, soul, body and mind are still holding on to what different things broke you.

Letting go starts with acceptance. Not agreement. Not justification. Just the soul-deep understanding that it happened, and you don’t have to carry it anymore. The moment you stop fighting the memory, you free yourself from the energy of it.

Very Important: Feel what needs to be felt. Speak what was never said. Write the letter you’ll never send. Let your tears be sacred water that washes the wound clean.

Then... choose again. Choose you. Choose to reclaim your energy from people, decisions, and timelines that no longer serve you. Declare it out loud if you must: “I’m not who I was. I’m not who they said I was. I release this now.”

Letting go is a spiritual act. It’s not passive. It’s not weak. It’s an empowered decision to stop living in the shadows of your old story and start walking in the light of your healing... start walking in the light of your desired reality.

You are not your trauma. You are not your mistakes. You are not what they did to you.

You are what you become when you choose to rise, again and again. Choose resilience.

Release it. Thank it. Transcend it.
Your future deserves all of you, fully present, and not still looking back.