Comfortable in your skin today?
Am I becoming or have I become comfortable in my own skin?? This is a phrase (posed as the question in this thread) we hear in sobriety. What does that mean to you and where are you in that process today?
I learned from ya'll and others that sobriety is an inside job - I can't change the world around me but can only manage my perceptions of it and how I react to it. I learn to deal differently with anger, frustration and fear. I begin to change, soberly. I bump into concepts like love, tolerance and empathy. I start to believe it is better to seek understanding than to be understood -to love than to be loved - to console as to be consoled (as the prayer of St. Francis tells me.)
I start to feel more at peace, more comfortable in my own skin.
This takes time for me and is a arduous process.
How is your evolution comfort-wise in your skin today?? Does it fit?