{"id":2288,"date":"2012-01-09T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2012-01-09T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:20:00","slug":"sometimes-life-is-two-steps-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes life is two steps backwards. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in the recovery rooms for more than three and a half decades and most of my movement has been &#8220;forward.&#8221; \u00a0I detailed much of that in my recent book: <a title=\"My Story to Yours: A Guided Memoir for Writing Your Recovery Journey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/wp-admin\/amazon.com\">My Story to Yours: A Guided Memoir for Writing Your Recovery Journey<\/a>, published by Hazelden, fall of 2011. \u00a0However, there are times when the going is rough. \u00a0Even after all these years, and writing a book detailing my progress, becoming stuck is possible. \u00a0I have been experiencing one of the stuck times of late. \u00a0What triggered it is any one&#8217;s guess. \u00a0What has maintained its hold on me is my own unwillingness to spring free of it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want this to be &#8220;the rest of my story,&#8221; however; so it&#8217;s my commitment to change the message that&#8217;s running through my mind. \u00a0We do control that which we think. \u00a0And feel. \u00a0We control that which we say and do too. \u00a0In fact, the only thing we don&#8217;t control is every thing that is part of some one else&#8217;s drama. \u00a0Not letting the reality of some &#8220;back-stepping&#8221; define me in a long-term way or determine what kind of steps I am ready to take later today and from now on is the upside of choosing to live within the confines of this recovery blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Changing my mind about every aspect of how I live is the personal power I am guaranteed if I want it. \u00a0In fact, I wrote a book detailing exactly how to do that a few years ago. <a title=\"Change Your Mind And Your Life will Follow\" href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\">\u00a0Change Your Mind And Your Life Will Follow <\/a>is the full title of the book. \u00a0I was empowered by writing it. \u00a0It might empower me again today to sit and reflect on those messages that I understood so well a short time ago. \u00a0I seem to have &#8220;misplaced&#8221; those ideas these last few weeks. \u00a0It&#8217;s rather freeing to be able to admit that to you, in fact. \u00a0A sponsor gave me a small shoulder bag when I first got sober that said on the side, &#8220;I May Not Be Perfect, but Parts Of Me Are Excellent.&#8221; \u00a0That&#8217;s as true today, 36 years later, as it was then. \u00a0Thank goodness perfection isn&#8217;t demanded on our blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Going backwards isn&#8217;t the only direction open to me today. \u00a0I am ready to move forward again. \u00a0I opened up about my dilemma in a meeting today and in a conversation this evening with my spouse. \u00a0The crack in the wall of resistance began to appear. \u00a0And I can feel the breeze of freedom wafting over me. \u00a0Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in the recovery rooms for more than three and a half decades and most of my movement has been &#8220;forward.&#8221; \u00a0I detailed much of that in my recent book: My Story to Yours: A Guided Memoir for Writing Your Recovery Journey, published by Hazelden, fall of 2011. \u00a0However, there are times when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-in-the-mirror-you-and-yourself","category-your-experience-strength-and-hope"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sometimes life is two steps backwards. . . | Karen Casey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=2288\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sometimes life is two steps backwards. . . | Karen Casey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have been in the recovery rooms for more than three and a half decades and most of my movement has been &#8220;forward.&#8221; 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