Online Class Wisdom
What steps will you take to improve and choose happiness? Blessings: I do make a gratitude list and am thankful for all that I have in my life. Smile: Whenever I see someone face to face I do always smile and ask how their day is going. They usually are grateful for my asking. Affirmations: That is one area that I really need to work on. I just don't do them. Alarms: I never set an alarm unless it's absolutely necessary. I still have sleep issues and because it's so important I will sleep whenever my body lets it. Complaints: My motto is to never complain but I'm not always successful, to say the least! Discipline: I always do my walking and yoga and have added taichi, and breathing exercises. Eating: I have for most of my life eating healthy. By no means perfect at all! Treat others well: I have tried to do that all my life but when I was drinking the wine took away the filters and I have many regrets about the things that I have said. Time alone: I enjoy the fact that I wake up a few hours earlier than my husband and it's time for me. No conversation, expectations.... and when he takes his afternoon nap!
I think the most contemplative activity I do now is journaling. I have more time so I can really focus on writing about what I am thinking or reading or learning. Also, what is challenging me, what I am fearful of, and what I am obsessing about. And figuring things out as I write. I do not have all the answers but it does bring clarity and peace of mind. Sometimes, I figure out a road map for the next right thing, big or small. I can work out my anxieties by writing them down and accepting I have them. I ask the Universe/God for guidance and signs. Accepting mistakes (now sober, not the drinking days fuck-ups), accepting I have made mistakes, and just writing how I feel about them. What I learn from them. What do I need to continue to work on? What I am sad about. I can not say, in honesty, that I am perfectly at peace with myself today. I am not. But I am capable of just writing and having faith that, one day at a time, I will deal with them. Finally, for me, this pursuit of purpose and meaning is too big to take on right now. They are anxiety-producing obsessions that do not serve me. I am here, today, present, doing the next right thing. That’s it for now. And it is enough.
-A.C.-
I’m sure my friends will ask or wonder how I can parent these young kids without wine — and all I can think now (after learning so much and living through my own social experiences AF), is how could I do it with wine and being hungover?? This is absolutely a lifestyle upgrade for me. The Ted talk had a quote that “sobriety delivers everything that alcohol promises” and I’m finding that to be the case - less anxiety, better sleep, deeper relationships. Going AF has been the best “self-help” that I’ve ever done for myself.
-C.D.-
-H.M.-
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