[Leed]

From Days of Healing, Days of Joy - a Hazelden book

"I'm a lot less hard on myself these days. I've realized that my demons are really angels that have gone astray........................................Manny J.

"Oh no! Not something else to work on!"

How often we feel discouraged when we become aware of yet another self-defeating pattern in our lives. "Who needs this much awareness?" we may wonder.

Yet, many of these frustrating patterns are rooted in a healthy love-centered search for what is beautiful. We are all born reaching for love. The family system we were born into was the "school" where we learned what we know about filling our needs. Some of these lessons led us down the wrong path. In our search for truth, we may have learned to lie. In our search for good feelings, we may have learned not to feel at all. Wanting the best, we sometimes learned the worst. But the worst was learned in search of the best. We are better, much better, than the sum of our flaws.
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I will learn to accept my frustrations for what they are: the result of my attempts to meet real and legitimate needs.

[Travelinglady]

Thanks again, Leed!