Connecting with Our Inner Parts
Accept your parts with grace and love so they can be heard and expressed more easily. Write out your questions and have compassion for the reply they give you. Get curious about what you’re feeling and where it is coming from.
My Inner Child Riding Shotgun
We have the ability to call forth and connect with parts of ourselves. We can connect to whatever age is calling to us. One of our superpowers as humans is to put ourselves back in their shoes, see the circumstance from their eyes, and connect with the emotions that arose in those instances.
Drinking Self, Sober Self, and Summer Vacation
Alcohol will be present at most summer gatherings. If you are trying to be alcohol-free, questions like the ones above will pop into your head, and desires to partake in boozy bacchanalias will arise. We would be fooling ourselves into thinking otherwise.
Kingdom of Characters
For anyone trying to change nonbeneficial habits like drinking, there can be a cacophony of inner voices, urges, and feelings that pull us in many directions. By giving them names, forms, and personalities, I have found that I can better talk with and understand them.