Letting Go of Hatred ‘For the first time in my existence I surrendered to the fact that I could not fix this on my own and that what was accompanied by shame and a feeling of failure, was expelled in months to come. It was replaced by a sense of belonging and a fraction of power. The power I have always thought I had was not power at all. It was my biggest weakness and now I was busy rising from my destructive past, incredibly slowly, to a point of acceptance and understanding, regardless of the pain and hurt that accompanies change.’