The Healing Journey

There are not many things more noble than taking responsibility for yourself and your life and making the decision to change. At the same time, addiction and depression bring with them their own unique challenges and difficulties that are not easily overcome and require consistent effort, consistent change, consistent self-care. Healing takes consistency, and being consistent is not something that people who suffer from addiction are always good at. We have to re-learn consistency, and learn that it is okay to fail, make mistakes, and get things wrong, as long as we keep trying, keep pushing forward, and never give up. As someone who grew up in a household where I was screamed at and intimidated every time I did something wrong, this is something I struggled with for many years. I had chosen to allow someone else’s warped perceptions to become my own, therefore I associated being wrong with being bad, or no good, or unloved. So anytime I made a mistake, or failed, or got it wrong, I was the mistake, I was the failure, I was wrong, and I would just give up or not even try, because what is the point in trying if you believe that you are the failure. And the truth is, this is never the case. You are never the failure, you are never the mistake!

Healing requires seeing things differently, because what we believed, what we thought, what we were taught, is not always true. Values that we need to live by, like consistency, are misinterpreted according to the beliefs we inherited from other people. Until we create our own beliefs and learn to see things as they truly are, we cannot heal. We are blessed with the opportunity to create the reality and life that we want to have! We are no longer prisoners of the past, we are no longer defined by other people’s perceptions, we are Free! Free to heal, free to believe, free to grow, and free to develop ourselves and our lives in a way that adds abundantly!

Never give up, keep moving forward!