Its strange how hello is also the way that we say good bye. When I was a young girl of 7 or 8, I visited my sister Sandra and her best friend in Northern California. I remember things like the…
Grace and Peace, Cathy Jones
The Wise Owl
The Owl has returned, and with it, my knowledge that the world runs through a power greater than mine. Still, he always finds his way home, the little owl. It is one of the ways that I know that summer…
Mending Me: Art Therapy
We’re in the midst of launch the third in our “sister” sites on www.letting-go.org, dedicated to the psychology of codependency and love/relationship addiction, recovery and healthy living. It’s been a challenge because of the needs for video and audio to…
Letting Go
Letting Go To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it is the realization that I can’t control another To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means this outcome is not in my hands. To let go is not to change or blame another, I can only change myself. To let go is not to care for, but to care about. To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. To let go is not to be in the middle of arranging outcomes, but to allow others to effect their own outcomes. To let go is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality. To let go is not to deny , but to accept. To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but to search our own shortcomings and to correct them. To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and to […]
From Addictive Foundations…Letting Go is Complicated
Life, they say, is complicated. Have you found yourself wondering how to let go, come to center, end the emotional roller coaster? Ever wonder who “they” is, and how the rules of life are set? Really, the right, wrong, should,…
More than Enough
More than enough. It’s been the thought on my mind all day, where a deep sense of longing and loss have met with gentle acceptance and a swell of real, tangible hope. It feels like my eyes have been opened…