I can let my guard down today because I have faith in my ability to feel pain and come out of it. Each time I dip into my own inner depths, I come out with more of me, with another piece of understanding of my own inner world and what’s in it. As I develop the ability to tolerate the power of my own intense emotions without acting out and translate those emotions into words so that I can both reflect on them and share them with others, I build emotional strength, emotional intelligence and emotional sobriety. And I become softer and more accessible. My recovery is making me softer and stronger. Softer because I am willing to experience my real feelings, the ones beneath my brittle defenses; stronger because I am developing the ability to talk out rather than act out my emotions.

Inner strength allows me to feel my feelings

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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