Our True Selves

[caressa]

Many times, I think we fight this program. As the saying goes, "It is a simple program for people who like to complicate the heck out of it.

For me it is this, "Quit looking outward, take the journey inward."

We make changes in our life. Yet in truth those changes bring us back to our true essence.

For so many years, I was focused on others and I took on their 'stuff' and in recovery, it is about letting it go and finding me. As Melody Beattie puts it in one of her books, "Finding My Way Home."

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[caressa]

Today's reading from Higher Awareness, reminds me that my journey here is unique and makes up who I am.

The program taught me to walk tall, be my own person and to be comfortable in my own skin.

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[BW]

Our "True Selves" Hmmmm...How many of us walked into the rooms of recovery really knowing who our true selves were...We werre wives, sisters, daughters, mothers, but who were we really?

I found there was so much junk in the way with so many labels & masks that it took several inventories for me to discover who I really was. I had to uncover in order to discover and there was much to discard in the process of discovery. ...and I am still learning and growing but the bottom line is...I am a child of God and He adores me.

[majestyjo]

So true BW, we can't see the forest for the trees as they say. How can we know what we haven't been taught. How can we learn to press the delete button instead of replay on those old tapes. How can we learn to make new tapes to replace the old ones. I had to learn that it was my finger on the 'play' button, so it was up to me to change.

[majestyjo]

After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same."

--Paul Simon

Love this quote. We remove the layers, and we find ourselves.

[caressa222]

Nothing changes, if nothing changes.