Give Yourself Permission to Grow in 2013!

Want to grow into the better you in 2013?  You must give yourself permission to engage the process! 

"What we are after here is the healing of old wounds--not the creation of new ones.  No high jumping please!  Mistakes are necessary!  Stumbles are normal.  These are baby steps.  Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Too far, too fast, and we can undo ourselves.  Creative recovery is like marathon training.  We want to go ten slow miles for every one fast mile.  This can go against the ego's grain.  We want to be great--immediately great--but that is not how recovery works.  It is an awkward, tentative, even embarrassing process.  There will be many times when we won't look good--to ourselves or to anyone else.  We need to stop demanding that we do.  It is impossible to get better and look better at the same time."  --Julia Cameron