Great read for anyone....regardless of which forum you typically visit...
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Great read for anyone....regardless of which forum you typically visit...
Your Past Is Like A Bag Of Bricks; Set It Down And Walk Away
I ran across this earlier. Our past IS like a bag of bricks....it's up to us to set it down...embrace the lessons we've learned and walk strongly towards our future. I would love to share these words with my son but since I cannot...I'm sharing the link with all of you! Lucky!
I ran across this earlier. Our past IS like a bag of bricks....it's up to us to set it down...embrace the lessons we've learned and walk strongly towards our future. I would love to share these words with my son but since I cannot...I'm sharing the link with all of you! Lucky!
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What a great reading, Lizwig, I saved that site and plan to visit there often.
This was me in many ways. I remained "stuck" in my miserable life because it was the life I knew, the one I had become comfortable with no matter how bad it got...because I knew what to do as I had done it a thousand times before.
I was afraid of a new life, I thought I was not strong enough to face new challenges because I believed that I handled my old ones badly.
I need to read that over and over again, even though it's been a long time since I was stuck in the darkness, I am healthy enough now to look back and figure out how I got so bad before I got better. I will never know why it took me so long to change, to move forward and it's readings like this that help me figure it all out. I don't live in that dark world anymore but understanding what happened helps me ensure I never visit there again. For once and for all I can leave those darn bricks behind.
Thanks for sharing this.
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Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can’t see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.
I was afraid of a new life, I thought I was not strong enough to face new challenges because I believed that I handled my old ones badly.
I need to read that over and over again, even though it's been a long time since I was stuck in the darkness, I am healthy enough now to look back and figure out how I got so bad before I got better. I will never know why it took me so long to change, to move forward and it's readings like this that help me figure it all out. I don't live in that dark world anymore but understanding what happened helps me ensure I never visit there again. For once and for all I can leave those darn bricks behind.
Thanks for sharing this.
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Thanks Ann..it's a Facebook page that I subscribe to but I just checked (knowing you don't participate in that nonsense! Wink wink) they do have a web page. Simplereminders.com. I love most things they post. Very uplifting. They include a lot of very good recovery quotes as well.
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Thanks for the link - great read!
A counselor for the families at the rehab my daughter went to years ago (they had a really good week long family program) had actually participated in an inpatient family treatment program. One of the exercises they did involved actually carrying the sack of bricks around. Each brick represented baggage from the past that they needed to deal with to move on. Once they had addressed the issue (brick) they could take it out of the sack, until they reached the point where the sack was empty. She told us she had her heels dug in deep, and carried quite a few bricks long after the others were free. Visualizing this and the way she related her experience really helped me to start picking up and examining my bricks.
A counselor for the families at the rehab my daughter went to years ago (they had a really good week long family program) had actually participated in an inpatient family treatment program. One of the exercises they did involved actually carrying the sack of bricks around. Each brick represented baggage from the past that they needed to deal with to move on. Once they had addressed the issue (brick) they could take it out of the sack, until they reached the point where the sack was empty. She told us she had her heels dug in deep, and carried quite a few bricks long after the others were free. Visualizing this and the way she related her experience really helped me to start picking up and examining my bricks.
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That was great, thank you! I have a friend who gets their (the daily love) messages daily. Often times, she reads them to me and they are always exactly what I needed to hear for that day. I finally joined today. Thank you for the reminder.
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LMN, the other site I told Ann about above...simple reminders.com has links sometimes to the daily love site but also many others....I think I "Like" nearly everything they post! All positive messages which I appreciate. I'm going to check out daily love on a more consistent basis now.
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Originally Posted by lizwig 
LMN, the other site I told Ann about above...simple reminders.com has links sometimes to the daily love site but also many others....I think I "Like" nearly everything they post! All positive messages which I appreciate. I'm going to check out daily love on a more consistent basis now.
Oh ok, thank you!!
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Lizwig- thank you for this great article! I need reminders like this....nudges to push me out of old habits like focusing on the past and some of the painful memories. It reminds me that it does no good holding on to stuff like that. I looked at the simple reminder website. Lots of inspirational messages!
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