we will FEEL as if we are actually taking care of ourselves.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">When we make decisions to try to take perfect care of ourselves, we become lost,frozen because </span><br /> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYeKjj3e-52wW6CoJh4uQzgdGfog1clhUQDGOyIqy4HdKWXwYiYbFzMtfqbZBug0_043RU05x__mZkppQ0oJe8MplwOdMExdgoccFDUckxnKKTCYHU2o_G_0DNPxmJ5tbzjdzbiK4bCM/s1600/inner-child+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #999999; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYeKjj3e-52wW6CoJh4uQzgdGfog1clhUQDGOyIqy4HdKWXwYiYbFzMtfqbZBug0_043RU05x__mZkppQ0oJe8MplwOdMExdgoccFDUckxnKKTCYHU2o_G_0DNPxmJ5tbzjdzbiK4bCM/s1600/inner-child+2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 1px solid rgb(192, 192, 192); height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">at this stage our inner compass has become damaged.  Our decisions, to the degree that we are traumatised, become faulty.  And what’s worse, we will FEEL as if we are actually taking care of ourselves.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">We will at this stage defend our actions to the hilt, but our decisions are bad and end up only hurting ourselves worse.  This happens in a myriad of ways, including through sex, food, drugs, personal hygiene, relationships, romance, money, and even through seeking help in the helping profession.  We trust people who are not to be trusted, because at a deep level we cannot trust ourselves.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">And the longer we go without healing our traumas, the more our problems in self-care compound.  Our lives become more and more damaged and more and more off-course.  Our bodies, Our relationships, and our very connections with ourselves get more and more broken.  Our very decisions only end up traumatising ourselves worse.  This is the tragedy that pays out a dividend of more tragedy and locks into the very heart of addiction.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> None of this is a great mystery.  We all hear stories of people who have been severely wounded in childhood who end up living the most hurt, suffering-filled adult lives.The difference for us is that we have a solution in the Stages Study Course that directly challenges and gently heals our predicaments.</span></div>

we will FEEL as if we are actually taking care of ourselves.

When we make decisions to try to take perfect care of ourselves, we become lost,frozen because  at this stage our inner compass has beco...

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