I’m a great believer in fresh starts, especially if you’re a work-in-progress and healing from childhood wounds and you’re feeling stuck, as everyone does now and again. To that end, I look to the start of a new month as a blank page, the start of a new season which always has a different kind of energy, and, of course, the biggest start-your-engines of them all, the New Year. But I’m not talking traditional resolutions here (because they don’t work, for one thing); instead, let’s focus on some mindsets and skills that can help you stay on track and make real progress. The ideas are drawn from my books, Daughter Detox: Recovering from an Unloving Mother and Reclaiming Your Life and the newly released The Daughter Detox Companion Workbook: A Year of Guided Journaling, Inspiration, and Tools to Heal, which is organized by the calendar year and begins with January.
Before we look at what what to focus on, let’s do a checklist of what you need to let go of.
3 things to try to chuck in 2019
Please note the words “try to” above; not one of these things is actually easy to let go of. Letting go is actually a process which requires you not just to control your thoughts and emotions but only truly takes place when you’ve substituted a new behavior for the old one you are quitting. The words “let go” are very misleading; it takes a lot more effort than simply dropping the string and allowing the balloon to float away.
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