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Laura Clery
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May 19 - May 30, 2020
But the only thing in life that I had control over is myself and my reactions. I can’t change my past. I’m allowed to be mad about these things, but I can also work to let them go. I can release the resentment and forgive. Because, honestly, my life depended on it—and
I started to look at other people around me not as inherently bad or good, but rather as healthy or sick and doing the best they can. Everyone is doing their best. Sure, sometimes their best sucks, but that’s okay.
because one of the tenets of my sobriety is to forgive, to see people as sick and doing their best rather than as evil.
I believe that people can change. If they have the willingness, if they see a need within themselves, they can reach down within and change. I hate when people use the phrase
“you are who you are” as an excuse to let themselves be less than the person they could be.
Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, which says that we are constantly in a state of either love or fear, and these states control the choices we make and the way we live.
I chose to start looking at life through a loving, giving lens, asking every day what I could give rather than what I could get. I wanted to know what my life would look like if I focused on tolerance and forgiveness.
I started getting into the Law of Attraction. All the aspects of the Law of Attraction are pretty far out there, but what I took from it is this: rather than focusing on what you don’t want, focus on what you do want. Don’t be afraid to dream as big as you want. What you are thinking, what you tell yourself, can manifest. The concept was so mind-blowing to me, I started saying affirmations to myself every morning: I am going to make millions of people laugh around the world on a consistent basis. I am going to have a successful career. Then I took it further. I wasn’t “going” to have these
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I’m saying that a shift in your focus from what you don’t want to what you do want is more powerful than we could ever imagine, and it works in mysterious ways.
have Kristal’s wise words to bring me back to earth: stay in the action and out of the results.
if I don’t have that self-worth inside me, I won’t survive the day that the likes stop coming and followers stop caring.
If you define yourself by how others see you, then suddenly you’re nothing to even yourself.
For the first fifteen minutes of the walk, I do breathing exercises to get centered. For the second fifteen minutes, I make a list of everything I’m grateful for. Stephen and I usually alternate. I say “I’m grateful I’m sober today,” and he says “I’m grateful for our one-eyed dog,” and so on. It puts us in a state of gratitude, which is a really easy way to make yourself feel good, even if you’re in a bad mood. Then after that, we do fifteen minutes of visualization, where we list all the goals and hopes we have for ourselves as if they are already happening for us. “I’m so happy and grateful
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I saw that my addiction, my fear, and my insecurity were getting in the way of my purpose and I changed, even when I thought change was impossible. Today, I know people can change. I went from being a selfish, suicidal, self-obsessed, drug-addicted alcoholic, to being a more-happy-than-not, vegan, sober yogi with three rescue pets, making an effort to give
And it is because I put down drugs and alcohol and started walking through fear and wanting to be loving and tolerant and forgiving and of service. I decided that I want to be a good person. I think that works.
