Shameless.
Being spiritual warriors means not letting shame knock us out of the fight. Feel the pain, don’t feel the shame. Don’t let your reptile brain tell you you’re unworthy and unlovable. Remember who you are. Admit your mistakes and learn from them. Claim your inherent value as a human being. Keep going. Love shamelessly. Someone out there is trying to love shamelessly too, and waiting for someone like you.
Grace. Period.
Starting where we are is exactly how we experience the interplay of grace and truth in our lives. We accept the truth, and discover there is always grace. We keep accepting the truth. There is still grace. Period. The gift is always there … waiting for us.
Difficult Love.
Getting attached to someone is easy. Staying attached is hard. Someone starts feels trapped, or someone becomes needy and clingy. Arguments become more common. Fights become the norm. Things go from bad to worse, and the relationship ends … sometimes as suddenly as it began.
Awakening to Spirit.
The altered states of consciousness provided by transpersonal therapies and transpersonal spiritual experiences are part of the “fight”—the struggle/growth process that allows us to transcend our ego-centric way of being and connect to another person (and the universe) in ways that are more uninhibited and free-flowing and less anxious or traumatic. We resolve our fears, open up to Love, enter into another person’s life, and welcome that person into ours more fully and completely … without losing ourselves.
My Permanent Accessory.
People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) live, work, and play like everyone else. They are intelligent, conscientious, funny, and fun to be around, often unusually so. They are not perpetually drunk. They do not spend every day in bed with a hangover. It’s what happens when they don’t drink that’s the problem.