Happiness is fleeting, it's here this moment and whoosh.....gone again. How can I make it stay? A recent training tripped me, tripped.....no, it pushed me, pushed hard in the trenches of sadness, into a pitch dark bottomless hole where the light is too far... I never enrolled in this training to feel miserable, it was meant to transform me, empower me to lead better. But it did transform me. It echoed that to be empowered, you need to liberate yourself of all bondage of the past. Whatever you were suppressing or avoiding you need to live it, live it to be free of the suffocation that can cloud your thinking while deciding for your future. Happiness does not mean the absence of sadness, it means living your sadness to appreciate the moments that give you contentment. The day I stifled my emotions of loss, sadness, grief, inadequacy, anxiety, remorse, insignificance, guilt, anger; they stayed, made a home in my body. They picked a corner in my body....not only my heart,