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More Language Of Letting Go

Dump it

Sometimes, we don’t have one clear feeling to express. We have a bunch of garbage we’ve collected, and we just need to dump.

We may be frustrated, angry, afraid, and sick to death of something– all in one ugly bunch. We could be enraged, hurt, overwhelmed, and feeling somewhat controlling and vengeful,too. Our emotional stuff has piled up to an unmanageable degree.

We can go to our journal and write this whole mess of feelings out, as ugly as it looks and as awkward and ungrateful as it feels to put it into words. We can call up a friend, someone we trust, and just spill all this out over the phone. Or we can stomp around our living room in the privacy of our own home and just dump all this stuff out into the air. We can go for a drive in our car, roll the window down, and dump everything out as we drive through the wilderness.

The important idea here is to dump our stuff when it piles up.

You don’t always have to be that healthy and in control of what you feel. Sometimes, dumping all your stuff is the way to clean things out.

God, help me understand that sometimes the only thing preventing me from moving forward in my life is hanging on to all the stuff that I really need to dump.

There is a reason why they say to go to meeting. We can go to meetings and be with like minded people, who have been where we have been and they can identify with us.

\we have a safe place to share. A place where we can dump 'it' all out and leave it there. My sponsor told me, if you go to a meeting and there are 5 other people there, you only have to take 1/5 of your stuff back home.

A dear friend is the matriarch of a group that has a pencil and a feather in a glass and sits on an empty chair in the center of the sharing circle. They call it the sh**e fairy. Dump all your sh**e and the sh**e fairy will clean it all up and you won't have to take any of your sh**e home. Personally, I think it is priceless.