Originally Published: December 30th, 2024
2025
My relationship with our dogs, Vinnie and Pebbles has a positive impact on me.
They are unconditional love, loyalty and fun.
The authentic, compassionate relationship I am developing with myself has a positive effect on me.
As I continue on a spiritual path of sobriety, while healing trauma in therapy I am feeling more comfortable in my own skin. Becoming the woman I imagine myself to be.
The relationship I have with my husband, Michael. We continue our commitment to each other, through the hard and fun times, while growing old together.
The relationships I have with family is deepening as I grow older, wiser and settle into inner-peace.
S, 🌻
2024
The relationship I develop with my Higher Power has a positive impact on me to help grow a softer, kinder relationship with myself to then be a better person in the world.
Sometimes I go inward, losing perspective down a deep, dark rabbit hole of self-flagellation and paranoia.
I am the hardest person on myself.
Talking it out with a safe person like my husband, therapist or 12-Step member helps bring me back to a view of the world from outside of myself.
To observe.
Be curious.
Be grounded and calm.
But, there is one more important step.
This step takes me from the mind of observing, curious, grounded and calm – to my heart – and that is connecting to my Higher Power.
Connecting to my Higher Power, who I believe is that unseen loving energy that binds us all (including fauna and flora), helps me be kinder to myself and others.
While I still have lots of room to grow in the department of self-compassion and how I feel about my body as it changes with menopause; using mindfulness and meditation I continue to pray to my Higher Power to help me get out of my own way and back into my heart.
To do the next right thing.
S, 🌻
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Stay healthy and happy, Stephanie. You’re awesome!