From joy2meu

[serenity3]

When we get into recovery, we are given access to a new tool box. A tool box full of tools that work in our best interest. A big part of making progress in recovery is transitioning from using our old tool box - the tools we learned growing to cope with the pain and go unconscious - to learning how to use the new tools.

This of course, is possible because we are becoming more conscious of our inner process. We are observing ourselves enough to start understanding our patterns and triggers. As we raise our consciousness and and become aware of our reactions, we can begin to consciously start setting internal boundaries out of Love rather than fear and shame.

Those boundaries include: a boundary within the mental to help us tell the critical parent voice to shut up and start owning our power to reprogram our intellectual paradigm and change our perspective on our self and life; a boundary between the mental and emotional so that we can learn to feel and release the feelings while not buying into the false beliefs; a boundary within the emotional so that we can start discerning with more clarity which emotional reactions coming from the wounded parts of us - and which are intuitive messages from our Spirit; and boundaries that help us separate being from behavior, so that we can start affirming our worth as beings while recognizing that we can change any behavior that is dysfunctional, any behavior patterns that do not work to help us be happy and enjoy life