Cease comparing yourself to others by getting to know the new you, Ep17

From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast

This is a page from a book my therapist uses for our topics on our Monday night meetings. This was the excerpt for April 29th.

We can define who we are by getting to know ourselves in sobriety and recovery. This means we get to re-evaluate what we stand for, our moral character, our belief systems, what we will enjoy, and what we won't tolerate any longer.

We can also stop judging others by no longer judging ourselves so harshly or at all. When we judge others, we find something we do not like in them.

This passage has many layers, and I look forward to covering them with you in this week's episode.

Getting to know Myself

Today, I will cease looking for my face in other people's faces.

If I want to know who I am, I will observe myself in action, watching the inner workings of my mind.

No one has better access to me than me. If I don't know who I am and what I'm about, I certainly can not expect anyone else to tell me.

When I seek to be defined by others, I live from pillar to post, from one person's idea of me to a job description to a title or role to another person's idea of who I am.

I lose my center and seek to find it in people, places, and things outside myself.

Who I am is a changing thing. There is not one version of me to get to know and, finally, be done with it. I let myself change and grow.

I befriend my changing self

The more peculiar his own man's character, the better it fits him.

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