Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure or success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the brighter, more glittering achievements are denied us? AA 12&12, p. 112
This is my third Christmas off work due to major depression. It has been a hard journey to lose my professional status, the work itself, my connections with clients and colleagues, and my certainty in what my daily work is. However, I am coming to terms with this and finding new work I need to do. Work I have put off for years. Work on my most inner self.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." —James Baldwin
Blessed be.
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