Do You Hang on to Blogging Hurt? |

September 27, 2026 blogging tips 🕑 3 minutes read

La Jolla California

After driving for 10 hours during a long road trip someone beeped at me on the highway. The individual leaned on the horn then sped ahead of me quite quickly.

I had no idea why.

Hurt arose in my mind. Mild anger, slight agitation and even annoyance surfaced. I felt the emotions. I let the hurt go. I felt good after feeling hurt emotions in my mind and letting go of these feelings. What happened the moment I released feeling hurt? I felt good. I felt peaceful. I felt like I could be truly helpful again.

I let go of the hurt to be truly helpful. As long as I felt hurt I could not help anyone. I was busy licking my wounds. How could I lend a helping hand to anyone?

How to Help

Proceeding from a helpful energy feels easy if I feel good. But life has not always been this way. I used to hold on to serious blogging hurt, clinging to unhappy, critical clients, late or non payers and any imagined form of blogging injury. Clinging to people who I imagined hurt me made me feel bad. Feeling bad made me not too helpful. Being not too helpful perpetuated my blogging struggles.

How it goes: feel hurt, focus on your problems, forget about everyone else in helping terms. Where your attention and energy goes, grows. Focus on hurt. Hurt grows. Hurt people struggle to help people. Thinking inward about the self cancels thinking outward about others.

If you cling to past hurt you dissolve present power to be truly helpful. Holding on to blogging pain perpetuates blogging struggle, now. Facing, feeling and releasing past hurt forgives your world to the point of feeling good enough to be genuinely helpful. Being truly helpful accelerates your blogging success.

Hurt Is In the Mind Not Out There

I faced fears concerning past hurtful experiences because all perceived hurt is in the mind, being imagined. People simple do as people do. How you picture people doings depends on ideas in your mind. Digging deeper into your mind roots out the hurt holding you back.

I felt fears of being robbed or cheated to let go the imagined hurt allegedly impressed upon me from clients who did not pay for my blogging services. The ego hates letting these folks go but the ego is the source of blogging failure. How could I lose anything by partially losing the source of my blogging failure?

Letting go past hurt makes you helpful in the present. Being helpful in the present gives you ideas for helping people. Helping people through blogging, guest blogging, genuine blog commenting and authentic blogger outreach increases your blogging success. The equation feels simple to master logically. Help to succeed. But past emotional hurts appear to prevent you from helping people now. One needs to face each hurt to be free of perceived slights. Being free of imagined slights breaks shackles preventing you from helping people, here and now.

Let Go to Grow

Release the past experience of a client appearing to stiff you. Be generous now. Let go the negative eBook reviewer. Be truly helpful now by solving reader problems through content.

I wrote this post now to be helpful. But I released ample past grievances to be persistently helpful because each weight from the past had to go, to free myself to be helpful. Carrying the grievance and its adjoining guilt seems even more foolish because who wants to carry around leaden weights? Who chooses to punish self to fail when letting go hurt releases the burden? Why would you not release the blogging burden to amplify your success?

Let go hurt to be helpful now. Release the past to be generous in the present.

Be helpful by looking past hurts.

Help readers versus licking your blogging wounds.

Put blogging misery behind you.

Serve now.

Succeed.