I M Perfect lady

acceptance

  • All of Life’s Realities.

    It is my 53rd Birthday, and I feel so young at heart yet wise beyond my years. I feel so wondrous in Spirit and the weight of a life's journey…Light but knowing the journey it took to get here. The… Continue reading

  • The Grieving Process

    I am rereading Melody Beatte's book, "Codependent No More," and I am very surprised to see how she spends a lot of time on the grieving process. She writes, ‎"A codependent person or a chemically dependent person may be in… Continue reading

  • It is ill fitting in their worlds.

    What I discovered in telling my story is that people get lost in their own lives while listening…lost in trying to defend and discern if my story matches theirs. It isn’t being told to match yours, it is merely being… Continue reading

  • Unhappiness wants what is impossible to get.

    “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”      ~Werner Erhard   I received a message from an old friend, and he was worried about me being happy, that he was sorry I felt so badly towards my mother, he… Continue reading

  • A Mother who Walks in Reality.

    Last night I read, “Hannah’s Gift” by Maria Housden, Lessons from a Life Fully Lived.    What a great gift they gave each other as they bravely faced life as it unfolded for each of them, in truth.   For… Continue reading

  • Awareness of Self

    It is interesting to me that when you see someone in denial you automatically think that they just need to see reality.   What is a much deeper problem is the ways in which they have lived to ‘not see… Continue reading

  • Letting It Go!

    Acceptance and I are staring at each other; it dangles both pain and freedom.  I see the two sides and feel caught in between, stuck standing still.   I see with big lady intellect and with little girl dreams, I… Continue reading

  • The Cost of my Peace!

    I finally figured out what I can’t accept in having to accept.   I can’t accept that someone can’t change.   And I guess that is not the meaning of acceptance.  I want acceptance with a clause.   I want… Continue reading

  • A broken Heart.

    Remnants of a long conversation linger in my head, dragging out more ideas and different slants on fear, truth and death.   I wonder what some would fear most, facing their truths or facing their deaths.   If you truths… Continue reading

  • I can.

    ”We would if we could.”  This phrase my brother picked up from Bryon Katie.  Her books are about accepting what is, or loving what is.  So that phrase must be in reference in being unable to accept what is.  … Continue reading