Recently, as I've tried to acknowledge my own reality, I've been surprised by the variety of responses I've received. Whether it's friends, family, people in recovery, people out of recovery, as I've acknowledged the reality around me, I've been told to not think about it, ignore it, stop blaming, stop playing the victim. Society really teaches us not to acknowledge the difficult things in our lives. We're told not to dwell on the negative and not to focus on the difficult things. Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk tells us: "As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself... The critical issues is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage." (Found in the Book: The Body Keeps The Score) Until we acknowledge our own reality - the past and the present, we can't heal or change it. In this episode I share four reasons why we don't acknowledgement things in our lives and the power acknowledgement gives us.
Homework: Identify two things in your life that you need to acknowledge that you have been avoiding. Write them down and share them with at least one person.Episode 164: Tending to Our Emotions
Episode 163: Women's Stories Series - Rosario
Episode 162: The Connection Crisis
Episode 161: Privilege, Pandemic & Pacing
Episode 160: Women's Stories - The Grace Spot
Episode 159: Your Moment of Free Fall
Episode 158: Lockdown Loneliness
Episode 157: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 3
Episode 156: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 2
Episode 155: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 1
Episode 154: The Boundary Box
Episode 153: Leveling Your Behaviors
Episode 152: My OPEN Year - 2020
Episode 151: Recovery Evolution
Episode 150: The price of Freedom
Episode 149: Doing it Poorly!
Episode 148: Compartmentalization
Episode 147: Minding the Gap
Episode 146: The Cycle of Relationships
Episode 145: One Layer Deeper and Family of Origin
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