So many of us know that we seem to be waiting around for someone else's permission or approval to live our RECOVERY. It's kind of crazy actually.

This idea of permission...........

So many of us know that we seem to be waiting around for someone else's permission or approval to live our RECOVERY. It's kind of crazy actually.


One piece of recovery advice that we heard recently is the idea of doing what we would do with our life if our parents or loved ones were no longer living. Are there any actions we would take? Any recovery we would chase? Parental approval is the big deal. But the thing is, our parents gave birth to us so that we could THRIVE in our recovery. We don't think anyone's child within wants us to live someone else's life.




We were not born to live our parents' life. We were not born to live a life of someone else. We are not born to live the life of our recovery tribe, or community, or faith, or creed or nationality.




Out beyond all those identifies of FORM is US. And WE are a UNIQUE creation that was born to give a UNIQUE gift.

Yeah, we used to think this kind of talk was kind of fluffy BS, too. But we have made our life an experiment in wondering if that was true ever since we heard it. But We know that there is only ONE of us. And that CANNOT be replicated, duplicated, copied or decoded. We am uniquely us.



 We need NO ONE's approval to do what we are doing. What we do comes from a deep calling within ourself to make contact with our child within every day. To put out contact. To share. To add value. To help us get unstuck and living our child withins purpose.




We have to live with the choices that we make. They are ours to make, no one else's.




And the same is true for you!




So whose approval or permission do you think you need to live your recovery life? Make a list. And then realise that the only person's approval or permission you need is your own. Give yourself permission to live your calling, your purpose and your recovery. The child within gave it to you to express in this lifetime. Giving yourself permission to be yourself is the best way to let The Child Within guide your life - because that's why you were created.


The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives.

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