Personal Power For All
I've been involved in the human potential movement or on a personal power path for 40 years. When I started on my path I didn't know I was on a path; I just knew I was in so much angst about my life and my body that I had to do something. What I did was go to a 12-Step program and found a spiritual answer or rather I began to understand how life really works - not what I had learned from my parents who actually didn't have a clue. It's not that at 37 I found all the answers. I found out there were questions. Much more important.
So my journey has wound and wound and found me living in L.A., Sausalito, Mill Valley, Petaluma, Dallas and Las Vegas - in no particular order.
- It took me out of my first marriage of 15 years into single parenthood with 4 children with lots of low self-esteem.
- It took me to other 12-Step programs. It found my second husband of 6 mos. in that 12-Step program and led me out of the marriage and the program again.
- It found me at an obscure workshop called Making Love Work by the then very unknown Barbara deAngeles and John Gray.
- It found me discovering my childhood abuse and back into another 12-Step program.
- It took me back to John Gray and Men Are from Mars . It found me my 3rd husband of 23 years.
- It took me to coaching and writing - and many other places.
Why did a woman who was emotionally and sexually abused as a child, who suffered from very damaged self-esteem, married 3 times(!), who saw herself as a victim etc. etc etc. get such a great current life. THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. I DO THE WORK I UNDERSTAND MY NEEDS TO HEAL, TO GROW AND I DO IT 100%. Even when I didn't have the emotional tools to move on, I had the personal power. Whether it's with a coach, without a coach, in a 12-step program or out - NO MATTER WHAT, I do and have done the work.
If you have that kind of personal power and commitment to your path, you have anything you want. I promise.
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ReplyDeleteVery inspiring. Its extremely difficult to be positive when the chips are down and I applaud your determination to 'understand what needs to be done' and to 'commit to it 100%'. Please keep writing about your experiences. It gives us hope that we too can reach for the stars :-) All the best !!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this - I too come from the kind of background that is a long journey to walk out of it. Thank you for the reminder and insight that the winding, often dark journey IS life.
ReplyDeleteYou are in synch with Michael Beckwith. He talked about resolve this Sunday, about purging the phrase, "I don't feel like it" from your vocabulary. Good going on this entry.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I started on my path I didn’t know I was on a path; I just knew I was in so much angst ...that I had to do something.[link to post] http://friendfeed.com/e/09863820-c8fc-445e-8f56-40547509ed36 - Posted using Chat Catcher
"If you have that kind of personal power and commitment to your path, you have anything you want. I promise." I am learning this, and it is SO true. Thank you for this awesome post<3 xo
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