Safe place and time to heal our burdens

Let's start with a few good quotes I have found in my surfing the net and reading.
Here is a quote that could fit any mystery novel with a male lead, "A woman came in, looked around, moved to the counter. I wished I was more than I was." Jack Taylor, author Ken Bruen. Simple wording of a complex feeling.
Here are two inspirational quotes to think about:
"We build to many walls and not enough bridges" Isaac Newton I find it is a lot easier to build walls.
"To ease another's burden is to forget one's own." Abraham Lincoln
Truly is a great thought, but can we forget our burdens? When I look at the photos of Abraham Lincoln in office you can see what stress did to him. The fact is despite his personal cost he went beyond his burdens to help others.
The Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 1:3,4, "Praise the God and Father of our Lord

Kindness and care mean a lot

Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. 4 He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God." Our burdens are used to help others. Empathy and compassion don't come easy for us. The things we go through can stretch our heart to care and understand. 2nd Corinthians has great insight into the ministry of caring for others and how suffering relates.
Burdens and suffering can have a long term effect on us. Lincoln had to serve and it cost him. He was not in a time of healing but in a time of great conflict and suffering. I think there are times when we are in the middle of conflict where there is no time for a retreat. A child in rebellion, a spouse fighting a terminal illness, the stress of serious surgery or in a war where one has to fight, run withdraw to survive. A child or spouse in an abusive relationship where they are lost in a forest and can't see through the trees. The burdens are costly and heavy. We can only forget so long before they eat us inside.
We need a place that is safe and a time to heal and come to terms with our burdens.
Peter quotes Ps. 55 in 1 Peter 5:7, "casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you." We can't keep our burdens, we have to give them to the one who loves and cares for us. Finding friends who have learned from their burdens and understand yours and great to share and talk it out. We can't stay in war or in an abused relationship, we need safety to begin to heal.
I am not sure it is discussed, but hospitals are thought to be safe places yet in them we may face our greatest fears. I think of it the same way I think of "shell shock". Hospitals can be a warzone for our health. Some of the things I went to has given me some insight into this. If you are in hard time in your life, put on your team of care friends, doctors, nurses, Psychiatric support to get you though this bad time. "There is a friend that is closer than a brother" and you can "cast all your care on Him, because He cares about you." Keep walking