Today I see that my life is up to me. How I choose to live, what I will accomplish, how I conduct my intimate relationships and how I treat myself are in my own hands. I am no longer afraid that pain and anxiety will return me to a state of helplessness and vulnerability. Let it come-I am ready to meet it head-on. I am strong in the awareness that I can live as I choose to live. I have been willing to walk a path of recovery that, though difficult, has built a strength in me and a knowledge that I can survive my most painful feelings. I do not need to be afraid of my life if I am not afraid of myself or an emotional death. I have met and tamed the monsters that live inside of me. I am comfortable in my own skin.

I am free to be who I am.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Voltaire