Face it and change it, for everything can be faced

It’s a great big fat lie that human beings cannot change.  The truth is, we’re constantly undergoing change, life circumstances are constantly in flux, and everyone’s changed a myriad of things about themselves.

Change, as a function of intention, is a function of facing.  Anything we can be truthful about that needs changing can be changed.  Face it, endure the pain of change, and there before your eyes is a state of transformation.

This is the whole premise of recovery programs — face and feel your truth; that truth that you’d prefer to deny and drown away with the drink, a drug, or anything else that manifests a turning away.

Everything can be faced, and the truth of this matter is, we’ll all have things that we must face in order to overcome what could swallow us in an oblivion of later regret.

The point is, get it done.  Get it faced.  Get that ugly, unsavoury truth in your face.  Don’t continue denying and running from it.  Do what can seem impossible, so you can realise what so many know as a fact; no truth has the power to crush any of us.

The fear of facing the thing is often infinitely worse than facing the thing itself.  That fear of facing the thing threatens us with something of a mirage, a fabrication, a lie.  By allowing that fear its maintaining hold, we hold ourselves apart from winning what was always destined to be ours.

The humbling thing about this truth is there are always truths that every single one of us is afraid of facing.  The big question therefore is, what’s the thing?  What’s holding me apart from freedom?  What am I denying?  What am I afraid of?  What’s delaying my healing?  How can I find out what I’m avoiding?

Find it, face it, fear it less, and freedom comes into view.  You may need help, and that’s okay.

Nothing is worse in life than having the opportunity but refusing to take it.

Do it while you can.  Experience the simplest, purest exhilaration that is freedom.  Nothing stands in the way but you.

The truth can threaten to blow up in our face, but the truth is it never does, not in the long run.

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