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The relationship between your past and your present is complex. Your experiences, particularly early life experiences, have affected profoundly who you are today. There is no such being as an a-historical person.
Categories: Self Growth
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Tags: identity, life-experiences, past and present, past is past
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You have, not just one identity, but many. In any one day you may take on the identities of a spouse, a chef, a parent, an instructor, a plumber, a bookkeeper, and a driver. On Saturday morning you might assume the identity of a soccer coach. In fact, you change identities every time you do something different or new. In order to do anything in life you need to risk the non-survival of the identities you assume. To be able to take the risk you need two key ingredients. You need both courage and humility.
Categories: Self Growth
| Tags: courage, humility, identities, identity
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An artist struggles with self doubt and wonders what to do when people don’t buy her work. Dr. Neill says, “As you really get to know yourself, knowing what to do will increasingly flow from your being rather than from external validation.”
Categories: Self Growth
| Tags: functional alcoholism, identity, integrity, living with an alcoholic, Self Growth, self worth, spiritual growth
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In my previous post, Alcoholism: Addiction with a Twist, I commented on how addiction can lead to addictive or co-dependent relationships. I ended with,
“The benefits to all of overcoming an addiction to the wellbeing of another are far reaching, but as always, the healing process begins with awareness.”
Awareness alone doesn’t remove the problem, but [...]
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage
| Tags: addiction, alcoholic-husband, alcoholic-marriage, Alcoholism, codependency, compulsive drinking, identity, intimacy, wholenes
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