Living in an Emotional Jail

[MajestyJo]

Thought for the Day
Saturday, OCT 7

From the book: Each Day a New Beginning

Many people are living in an emotional jail without recognizing it.

—Virginia Satir

Each of us is blessed with an internal guide, a source able to direct our actions if we but acknowledge it. Never are we in doubt for long about what path to take. The courage to take it might not be immediately forthcoming; however, it, too, is one of the gifts with which we've been blessed. Courage is ours for the asking. Right direction is ours for the taking.

Trusting our inner selves takes practice, followed by attention to the results of our risks. Before recovery, many of us passively waited for others to orchestrate our behavior, our feelings, and our attitudes. Stepping forward as the leading lady, with our own script in hand is quite a change, but one we are being coached, daily, to make.

The Steps help us to know who we are. More importantly, they help us become the women we long to be. But most important, they offer us the spiritual strength to risk listening to the message within and the strength to go forth as directed.

Right results, again and again, are elicited by right action. And my knowledge of the right action is always, and forever, as close as myself.

Didn't need bars, no one was more of a prisoner of their own mind than I was. It kept me in an abusive situation and the abused became the abuser.