Objective :
(1) Address self-definition as a major component of creative recovery.
(2) Move into your personal identity, a self-defined you.
Favorite quotes:
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast-you also miss the scenery of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Verse of the week:
For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10
Lessons Learned:
Self-doubts are symptoms of recovery.
When we give ourselves permission to recover that’s when the doubts will hit you like a ton of bricks. They will sprout like beans poking every corner of your brain ’til you get exhausted in dealing with them. But! This is not the time to give up! This is the time to fight back with affirmations.
Learn to identity crazy-makers (toxic people).
In the path to self-recovery we need to identify our toxic habits, perspectives, and most importantly the toxic people in our lives. Toxic people drain your energy.
“The capacity of delight is the gift of paying attention.”
One of the most important lessons I have learned this week is the gift of paying attention. And for everyday of this week I kept reminding myself to pay attention especially to nature. There is so much beauty in the world that when we truly open our hearts and eyes, we will know that we will be okay. Even in this moment right now, we are okay.
**I really loved this chapter, it’s beautifully written and emotionally evoking.
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