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Last night I met with the woman who is now my sponsor! We are going to meet again tomorrow night and get started on the steps. I'm so excited to do this!
I told my husband this morning, before I turned 30 I decided to lose all the weight I gained having babies (almost 50 lbs!) as a birthday gift to myself, and I did it! Now I'm turning 35 this summer and I'm giving myself the 12 steps as my gift this year. I think this will be the best gift I could ever recieve!
I go back and forth between scared and excited but my sposor says all I need is a little hope and willingness.... and I have that, so I'm on my way!
Thanks to everyone here because, if it wasn't for you, I would have never opened myself up to this. I'm grateful for all the painfull things that have happened because they brought me here and that's pretty amazing.
Whenever we do something that is brand new, of course it is a little scary, remind yourself of that along your journey, this is scary bc its new and that is ok! I found that that helped me immensely to 1) be aware of the fear and use courage to go forward and try anyway 2) the fear is from our disease and it is trying to keep us stuck in our same old patterns 3) the fear acronym helps too: FEAR future events arent real, this helps me to stay in right now and not five minutes, 5 hours, 5 months or years or days ahead, it helps me to say in right now and the present moment today. Right now is reality and right now I can empower myself with some small change.
It takes brutal honesty to work program, you have the willingness so you are ahead of where I was when I landed, it took me 2 years to get willing to surrender what I was doing and thinking. There is a lot of hope! and you are worth the hard work and getting to discover! welcome
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Light, Love, Peace, Blessings & Healing to Us All. God's Will Be Done. Amen.
You go Aimee!! You've got an army for support standing with and behind you. Many of us know the miracle that is coming for you as you exercise your courage to change and the willingness to follow thru. You got me remembering my own journey and that makes me smile like a Cheshire cat. Keep coming back and pass on what you learn. We recover together. (((((hugs)))))
I cant' tell you how very excited and relieved I am for you. This truly is the greatest gift you are giving yourself. I had no idea this program would impact every part of my life in so many ways. It has allowed me to live. I don't know what I would ever do without it. Neither will you soon too. :)
