Hi Kim,

I love this post. Right away my head went to a combo of Not Enough and Certainty. I think doubting myself started as a safety mechanism taught to me by the parents or adults in my life. Things like: "Be careful or you'll get hurt" or having an idea/dream that was shot down or made fun of. How about this one: "Get real." I think when we start to not make fear and getting hurt the bad guys we begin to break free of these restrictions. When I glance at the "what others think or are saying" vs. how only I feel about what I am doing or being.

Conditioning. The world tells me I live in the "Land of the Free and home of the Brave" but do not rock the boat, good girls _______ and here's what successful women-mothers-wives look like and act like__________.

Sounds like a double standard to me. This LIG work-my recovery training and coaching show me how to honor free and brave. SO being that the country has not changed must be my perspectives. Who am I not to be free and brave?? Thanks.

My head went to a question I have asked for so long, Why not me? Through the program of recovery, and the LIG work, the question is still the same, but more often now, has a different meaning attached to it. Before the meaning I attached was I'm not good enough- Bottom Line. Somewhere along the way, I made up this story that allowed me to stop thriving, and continue to struggle, and ultimatly shut down. Today, the meaning I attach to the question is the way I look at the awarness and acceptance peice of the four step action plan. I become aware that I am , I have, and I am capable. Then I go to I accept that I am. To accept is to do the whole fact finding thing, so I look at the evidence. That is where I go from as early as last year to today. I can achieve, because, I have. I can have, because I do have. So who am I not to be great? An individual who is just surviving, not truly living is my answer.