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Feed the boar

(Idiom) To consiously internalize positive lessons from a difficult or traumatic experience.
"After the last relationship got deeply abusive, I had to feed the boar; Now i take time getting to know people and I watch for incompatibilites and red flags."
- "Feed the boar" suggests that a painful experience leaves behind something large, stubborn, and hungry in the psyche. If you ignore it, it roots around in the dark, wrecking fences and trampling vegetable gardens. If you feed it properly, it becomes strength, caution, wisdom, resilience, discernment."