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 024: Women's Messages
Episode 023: Step 2: It Works When I Work It!
Episode 022: Women's Stories Series: Lee - Part 1
Episode 021: Step 2: Stop the Insanity!
Episode 020: Women's Stories Series: Lee - Part 1
Episode 019: Step Two: MY Higher Power
Episode 018: Not about Sex
Episode 017: Step 2: Came to Believe
Episode 016: Talking Back Part 3
Episode 015: Step One: A Life Principle
Episode 014: TALKING BACK Part Two
Episode 013: Step 1: It Works When I Work It
Episode 012: TALKING BACK Part One
Episode 011: Step 1: Unmanageable
Episode 010: Building Hope
Episode 009: Step 1: Powerless
Episode 008: In Case of Emergency
Episode 007: Working the 12 Steps
Episode 006: Practicing Recovery
Episode 005: Discipline Vs. Emotion
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Awakening Divine Wildness
The Ugly Truth Podcast (Audio)
Pillars of Progress
Freedom Seeker Chronicles
Neaux Nonsense