Annie Grimm’s Reviews > The Choice: Embrace the Possible > Status Update

The past isn't gone. It isn't transcended or excised. It lives on in me. But so does the perspective it has afforded me: that I lived to see liberation because I kept hope alive in my heart. That I lived to see freedom because I learned to forgive.

I keep posting updates because it's my way of posting quotes lol

"...you can live to avenge the past, or you can live to enrich the present. You can live in the prison of the past, or you can let the past be the springboard that helps you reach the life you want now.... We can choose to be our own jailors, or we can choose to be free.

another one: "...the fear produced by this core belief that made her so reluctant to risk showing her genuine self, which in turn made it more likely that her self-defeating belief might come true."

I'm having an "AHA!" moment. Wow.

underlying our least effective and most harmful behaviors is a philosophical or ideological core that is irrational but is so central to our views of our self and the world that often we aren't aware that it is only a belief...the belief determines our feelings...and our feelings in turn influence our behavior...To change our behavior...we must change our feelings, and to change our feelings, we change our thoughts.

"What are my disowned feelings? They are like strangers living in my house, invisible except for the food they steal, the furniture they leave out of place, the mud they trail down the hall. Divorce doesn't liberate me from their uneasy presence. Divorce empties the room of other distractions, of the habitual targets of my blame and resentment, and forces me to sit alone with my feelings."

I felt that. Brilliant!

I swear, Edith has an angel looking over her

This is heartbreaking but at the same time absolutely incredible