Recovery – Letting Go
To “let go” does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To “let go” is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization I can’t control another.
To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To “let go” is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To “let go” is not to try to change or blame another, it’s to make the most of myself.
To “let go” is not to care for, but to care about.
To “let go” is not to fix, but to be supportive.
To “let go” is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To “let go” is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
To “let go” is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.
To “let go” is not to deny, but to accept.
To “let go” is not to nag, scold or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To “let go” is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes, and cherish myself in it.
To “let go” is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.
To “let go” is to fear less and love more. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is…
Keeping your spirit burning brightly,
Learning to take your troubles lightly,
Counting your blessings daily, nightly.
~Linda Elrod
Happiness doesn’t always just happen – it comes as I discover what is truly important in life.
Places and circumstances never guarantee happiness. You must decide within yourself whether you want to be happy. ~Robert J. Hastings
“The only way to live happily ever after is to do it ONE DAY AT A TIME!!!
“The Key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” ~Epictetus
Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
Recovery brings us the ability to choose!
I will realize today how many positive choices are available to me!
Let go! Don’t control or complain! Surrender!
She who has hope has everything.
“When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware. ~ Mel Colgrove
Happiness comes from within. If you choose to be happy, no one and no thing can ever take that happiness from you.
“When its over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” ~Mary Oliver
“Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, Love + Freedom,
