Today I become willing to see, feel and release the shame that keeps me tied to dysfunction. There was always a bad guy in my family of origin. We searched in cooperative silence for one person on whom to pin the family disease. When that person was removed either by death or circumstance, we found another. We could not function without a fall guy. If we were unable to find one among ourselves, we talked about
someone else. We didn’t understand that making someone the bad guy made us all the bad guy. Our fear of being identified as the sick one was so great we had to pin it on someone else. Today I look at myself.

I can live through feelings of shame and let them go.

Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Angus Wilson