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Old 02-16-2014, 02:27 AM   #1
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Default What mistakes have helped me grow?

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

Shame-filled people feel that something is wrong at their very core. It is a sense of being bad . . .
—Susan Kwiecien

Nobody is rotten to the core. Whenever we start to believe we are bad all the way through, we can picture good things we have done, days when someone else was happy to be with us, and see for ourselves that we have many good points that outweigh the bad.

If we have done something wrong, we must apologize and make amends. Making a mistake is not the same as being worthless. Mistakes are a natural part of living, not something to be ashamed of. Our freedom to make mistakes is one of our greatest assets, for this is the way we learn humility, persistence, courage to take risks, and better ways of doing things. All of us are valuable and lovable. How could we be otherwise? Since mistakes are natural aspects of growth, we can salute them in others and ourselves as signs of life and celebrate our ability to learn and to forgive.

What mistakes have helped me grow?
What helped me was my pain. It helped me to look at how I allowed it to run my life. I mistook the concept that I could do something to change it without popping a pill. I found that if I practice self-care, make healthy choices, and do the do things I need to do for my recovery, the pain is less.

I believe they call it a change in attitude, sufficient to aid recovery.
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