Feeling a bit blue today so I'm so pleased I came across this post. The changes in others are encouraging and impressive. it's also made me take stock and give myself some credit for big changes too, and there's plenty.
Most significant are courage and my growing spirituality and my commitment to this path. Courage : it was only through being sober a year that I had the courage to get out of a toxic relationship. Whilst drinking, I just buried the daily misery, self medicating that was just sending me lower and lower. I'm now alone and that takes courage and I'm getting pretty good at it.
Spiritual learning : we are all part of the same thing, I'm not alone in this life as I'm a part of something much bigger. My past, my struggles, my hang ups.... They are so much less personal than I used to think, this insight gives me a tiny distance on all this and helps enormously in my choice of actions, and maybe even more significantly in my growing acceptance.
Thank you for this post
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