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Post by estrela5 on Jan 31, 2010 18:03:08 GMT -8
We're striving for acceptance in recovery - acceptance of our past, other people, our present circumstances, and ourselves. Acceptance brings peace, healing, and freedom - the freedom to take care of ourselves.
Acceptance is not a one step process. Before we achieve acceptance, we go toward it in stages of denial, anger, negotiating, and sadness. We call these stages the grief process. Grief can be frustrating. It can be confusing. We may vacillate between sadness and denial. Our behaviors may vacillate. Others may not understand us. We may neither understand our own behavior nor ourselves while we're grieving our losses. Then one day, things become clear. The fog lifts, and we see that we have been struggling to face and accept a particular reality.
Don't worry. If we are taking steps to take care of ourselves, we will move through this process at exactly the right pace. Be understanding with yourself and others for the very human way we go through transition.
Today, I will accept the way I go through change. I will accept the grief process, and its stages, as the way people accept loss and change.
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Post by Angel on Jan 31, 2010 19:39:18 GMT -8
i am grieving for my belief that a relationship would make me happy. I know now that isn't the case. Being close to my HP will make me happy - truely happy.
Grief and letting go of dreams has always been difficult for me. I will acept this change and let the dream go and replace it with a new one, one that is healthy and achievable.
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