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We need to allow enough room for others and ourselves to have and work through our feelings. We are people, not robots. An important part of us - who we are, how we grow, how we live - is connected to our emotional center. We have feelings, sometimes difficult ones, sometimes disruptive ones, sometimes explosive ones, that need to be worked through.By facing and working through these feelings we and others grow. In relationships, whether it be a love relationship, a friendship, a family relationship, or a close relationship, people need room to have and work through their feelings.Some call it "going through the process."It is unreasonable to expect ourselves or others to not need time and room to work through feelings. We will be setting ourselves and our relationships up for failure if we do not allow this time and room in our life. We need time to work through feelings. We need the space and permission to work through these feelings in the awkward, uncomfortable, sometimes messy way that people work through feelings.This is life. This is growth. This is okay.We can allow room for feelings. We can let people have time and permission to go through their feelings. We do not have to keep ourselves or others under such a tight rein. While we work through our feelings we do not have to expend unnecessary energy reacting to each feeling we or others have. We don't have to take all our feelings, and others' feelings, so seriously while we or others are in the process of working through them. Let the feelings flow and trust where the flow is taking you.I can set reasonable boundaries for behavior, and still leave room for a range of emotions.*Melody Beattie*

There's a part of us that wants to rise up and move into our full power and potential, and there is another part of us that says, "Shh! Be quiet! You don't deserve this. You don't have the education. You're too old. You're too poor. Look what happened to you..." Who are you to think you can have this fullness of being? You are a child of God, unique, beautiful and irreplaceable. We can choose, every day, which voice we will listen to.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / I realize that all I'm guaranteed in life is today. The poorest person has no less and the wealthiest has no more - each of us has but one day. What we do with it is our own business; how we use it is up to us individually. / c. AA, p. 473

"If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you won't. If you like to win, but don't think you can, It's almost a cinch that you won't.If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world you'll find Success begins with a person's will; It's all in the state of mind.If you think you're out-classed, you are; You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be very sure of yourself Before you can win the prize.Life's battles don't always go To the strongest or fastest man But sooner or later the person who wins Is the person who thinks she can."Walter D. Wintle

Peace is possible. Each moment that one individual chooses peace inside, the whole of humanity moves forward. We each have the ability and responsibility to become peacemakers in our daily lives.
John Morton

If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?Rob Bremer

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.Leo Buscaglia

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.Sidney Howard

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach