"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more."
-- Shirley Hufstedler
How are you sabotaging your potential for change?
We unconsciously use defence mechanisms to shield us from situations we perceive to be scary or painful. A part of you may want to grow and change, but another part may be resisting because change always moves you into new territory in your thinking and emotions.
If you find you are getting anxious, fearful, angry, frustrated, dismissive or unmotivated, then defence mechanisms are at work. Watch for them and know them to be signs of fear that wants to hold you back. Then courageously move through them.
"I have never been contained except I made the prison."
-- Mary Evans
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i found god in myself/and I loved her/i loved her fiercely--Ntozake Shange
Really loved this Post. Most of my life was spent in pretty much a self-destructive mode.
And what Justin had responded with, the big Trust issue. AA will always be my beloved home, where I have learned to not pick up a drink, one day at a time, by the working of the twelve Steps, and the continued practice of that 12th Step, reaching out with our hearts, to another.
