Language of Letting Go - April 2014

[MajestyJo]

Friday, April 18, 2014

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

Freedom

Many of us were oppressed and victimized as children. As adults, we may continue to keep ourselves oppressed.

Some of us don't recognize that caretaking and not setting boundaries will leave us feeling victimized.

Some of us don't understand that thinking of ourselves as victims will leave us feeling oppressed.

Some of us don't know that we hold the key to our own freedom. That key is honoring ourselves, and taking care of ourselves.

We can say what we mean, and mean what we say.

We can stop waiting for others to give us what we need and take responsibility for ourselves. When we do, the gates to freedom will swing wide.

Walk through.

Today, I will understand that I hold the key to my freedom. I will stop participating in my oppression and victimization. I will take responsibility for myself, and let others do as they may.

When I talked to my ex-sponsor from AA, last night we talked about freedom and the promise of such in the 12 Promises.

Not only freedom from active addiction, but fee to be myself. I may think that my addict and alcoholic have the addiction, but we too have one, we are addicted to care-taking, fixing-up, and we live our lives through them and often put them between our God and His will for us. We enable them to continue using, and soften their bottom, so they don't hurt bad enough to quit and want recovery for themselves. We feel that they should recover for us; and we know what should means, we end up shoulding all over the place. As a result, our life is crap, nothing is changing, and it is ALL their fault.