Update February 2012
This is the Newsletter of the Joy2MeU web site of codependency therapist, inner child healing pioneer, Spiritual teacher Robert Burney - who is the author of the Joyously inspirational book of Spirituality: Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls.
These Update Newsletters are posted online about once a year these days. A short announcement e-mail is sent out notifying people - who sign up for the Joy2MeU e-mailing list - when a new Update is posted.
Newsletter
The first three sections of this Newsletter are things I shared on other pages originally that I have now moved to this page. The first two are thoughts and feelings that I was having about my 28th sobriety birthday. The third one is one that I posted just before my belly button birthday when announcing the publication of my latest book. For the news of the year as it unfolded, there are excerpts from messages to my Yahoo Mailing list and Facebook that are posted below these birthday messages.
January 31st 2012
Below are some excerpts from messages to my Yahoo mailing list and things I shared on Facebook over the course of the year.
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February 22-25th 2012 So, it has been quite a year. Susan and I are closer and more intimate and more in love than ever. I get quite tired of living on the edge financially but we are getting by one day at a time - and having lots of moments of Joy and Love on the journey.
“Codependency recovery / inner child healing is a way of life. It is a way to live life that works. It works to help an individual gain some freedom from the past. It is a path for living that facilitates developing a centered ground space within where inner peace exists. That creates the space for a person to be present in the moment and be happy to be alive - to connect with Joy - some of the time. It is not something we do and then get on with our lives. It is something we do in order to Truly be alive. Life is a process - a journey. By being willing to do the inner child healing we can learn to be present for the journey - and to have the capacity to actually relax and enjoy it at times.” - Recovery from Codependency / Inner Child Healing
The music of my dance of life is more aligned with Joy, Love and peace now than with pain and fear and anger. Reminds me of the time I raged at God about how I was sick of being just relatively happy - just happy because it is better than it used to be.
“I can remember a time in the spring of 1989 when I raged at God about how sick I was of the recovery process. I said something to the effect that I was sick of only being relatively happy - the great tool in recovery where we stop and force ourselves to focus on the part of the glass that is full and be grateful, instead of giving power to the disease’s focus on the part that is empty and feeling like a victim - and that I wanted to be happy without having to compare where I am now to how bad it used to be. It was about a year later, that one day I realized that I had crossed a line someplace along my path. That I had shifted my relationship with life enough that my life was now more aligned with Recovery than with the disease, that my life was more defined by Joy, Love, and peace than by anger, pain, and fear. That I was having moments where I was just happy to be alive period - without having to force myself to look at the relative improvement. Forcing ourselves to own the power to change our attitudes from negative to positive, working at learning to align with Love instead of fear, are important parts of the process. The dysfunctional programming is deeply embedded in our relationship with life. It can be changed gradually. It will never be changed completely. Our wounds never go away - they gradually have less power to dictate how we live today. We are works in progress - in process. We are evolving back to an awareness of who we really are.” - Joy2MeU Update Newsletter October 2000
And that was years before the little goof ball below came into my life as an almost constant source of Joy - and before Susan came into my life to let me experience Love on levels I had never before known. This last year has been a great year even with the frustrations and disappointments and goals not quite reached. I am not sure what my Higher Power has in store for us this year, but I know that it will feel like an exciting adventure much more of the time than it feels like a painful ordeal. For that I am enormously grateful to the Recovery process. More will be revealed about what is in store for 2012 as the year unfolds. ~ Robert 2/25/12
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