Misty McLaughlin

  • Today’s prompt: Don’t take it personal. Notice all the times you start to take something person and let it go! You are letting of the emotional reaction. You are letting go of the upset that disturbs our peace.

    • This is something I am learning. I often have to pause and remind myself, but when I do it makes such a difference in my outlook and my attitude. I hang onto my peace and sanity when I can do that. My goal is to do it more 🙂

      • Beautiful. As humans, we will never be perfect at this nor do we need to strive for that. However, it is great to live more peacefully. I have found the more peace I choose, the less I am bothered by things. It’s like my spirit knows better than to get upset at something that doesn’t serve me. I’m not willing to play that game anymore. I am…[Read more]

    • My kids have been perfect teachers for me on how not to take things personal. If I take they’re attitudes and moods and feelings and words personal, what I’m doing is making them responsible for my feelings and projecting that responsibility onto them. Not sure if I worded that properly but in my head I know what I’m trying to say… Anyway,…[Read more]

    • I have always taken everything personally. But in recovery things have changed. I do not react. I am calm and peaceful. The best of this is with my 25 year old daughter. She knows how to push my buttons because she installed them. I do not react emotionally. She does not like this because she does not get the reaction she wants. And it feels good…[Read more]

  • Bev Sartain posted an update 8 years ago

    This week, make sure to catch up with any work that you have completed this month and check off your April checklist once completed! Remember that I will be traveling across the country this week so will not be prompting you. I would love for you to check in with your own prompts for yourself. Work on completing outer and inner clutter.

  • Bev Sartain posted an update 8 years ago

    Today’s prompt: This weekend make sure to walk yourself through the Finishing Unfinished Business pdf. I want you to keep noticing how the the #1 way to complete unresolved issues it to intend to do so and take action that supports that intention. This process of intended and taking action on intention is a VERY powerful process to learn.

    • If I were to follow this process my apartment would then be uncluttered and organized and livable. My apartment is chaos and at times so is my thinking. If I unclutter the external I know the internal would be uncluttered too.

      • Exactly, we are going to for intentional decluttering of our outer and inner world.

  • Jane Cornelius posted an update 8 years ago

    Here are my list of 3 external & internal clutter things to complete:
    External clutter…1.Under my bed, 2. Tupperware cabinet, 3. Trunk of my car. Internal clutter…1. Heal this overall sense of unworthiness, 2. Let go of the guilt & shame I’ve been carrying around. Some I need to forgive myself and move on and some really isn’t mine to…[Read more]

    • Jane, so appreciate you sharing so much clarity on the inner stuff that needs to be clear. Knowing is half the battle, as they say! Shame, unworthiness and filling the inner void were all things I experienced too. I’m happy to report that they can be resolved. You identifying them, acknowledging and calling it out will begin the process of having…[Read more]

      • Thanks, putting it out there and reading your reply are like breathing a big sigh of relief. Like ok I’m not stuck here. I get to move forward now.

        • You are only stuck there if you choose victim consciousness over creator consciousness. This is may be a new concept so living it and learning it takes practice, which you are doing. Stuck can’t live in creator consciousness. That’s why you will hear me always say look for the learning. When I say that, I’m asking you to look for the learning of…[Read more]

          • Thanks for pointing that out Bev. I think I always associate victim consciousness as blaming someone else which I don’t feel like I do, but I get that by not owning being a creator I’m choosing victim consciousness regardless of blaming or not blaming. That’s a huge point I didn’t get until now. It’s just like what you coached me on in last…[Read more]

      • When you reference filing the inner void – SHOPPING for clothes comes to mind for me. Once a major issue for me, I have tamed it quite a bit over the past few months. I have enough! I am enough! Thanks for sharing Jane. Your comments stirred me up a bit too 🙂

  • Miranda Kinney posted an update 8 years ago

    Hey I’m Miranda, I’m looking to work on my recovery in a different way than I am right now because this way isn’t always the best. I am trying to be more positive and optimistic and hoping this process will help 🙂

  • Wes Richards posted an update 8 years ago

    I’m connected to hope and gratitude today. My wife and I had a simple and productive conversation yesterday that has me hopeful for a deeper, more connected relationship and grateful for it as it is now. This is where my power lies as resentment kept me a victim of the past. Gratitude for my marriage as it is leaves no space for me to make any…[Read more]

  • Stephanie posted an update 8 years ago

    I watched this month’s webinar replay. I really love this concept that I CAN finish unfinished business. I’ve always been in tune with the fact that when my outside world is cluttered so is my mind, but I’m excited to learn the skill of completion to clear the internal and external simultaneously.

    • Awesome Stephanie! I too love the idea of completion. I think it’s really important, especially when it comes to recovery of any kind. I find it positive and helpful to think that I can complete issues for stay in perpetual suffering around them.