Breaking Away – For People Who Want To Transform Their Life
Have you ever had that feeling when it seems everything is against you?
I remember a time many years ago when something was wrong in my relationship. At the same time something went wrong with the finances. My children added more pressure and some thing cracked.
Suddenly life was in turmoil. When this happened I tried to bury my head in the sand. I hoped all the troubles would somehow miraculously go away and tried to pretended nothing was wrong.
As things got progressively worse, I went into fight or flight – do I stay and work this out, or run like mad. I stressed over things that didn’t matter and missed the things that did.
I put on weight. I pretended I was scared and made up woe is me stories in my mind that convinced me I couldn’t do anything about anything. I made excuses. I procrastinated. I paced up and down and my life issues kept going round in circles.
In my experience of working with people, it’s not unusual for people who have troubles to point to their circumstances or to someone else and say it’s their fault. But what I can...