Milestones or Steps Completed! Share and Celebrate Here :)

Step 240, learning how to be less anxious.

Remember everyone is fighting there own battles

I need to learn to create and make my own happiness and not let others try to mangle and steal it.

Another milestone, yeah me! I am learning to listen, to stop, think, and form good responses. I have embarked on a new approach which is really and old common sense doctrine that I believe holds much merit. The author is very endearing to me, and much maligned. I hope when others attack me and his approach that I am able to do justice in listening and responding. Have a great day.

I've learned that it's okay to go at your own pace. There's no right schedule or life-plan that works for everybody. Even if you're not where you thought you would be, so long as you are actively working to get there, you are fine.

It

STEP 600 🙂

On the downside (lets get the bad news out of the way first) - work is VERY stressful, Im often physically and mentally exhausted from it, and also sometimes despite my efforts to find supportive and stable friendships on here, those are still very difficult for me to come by because todays world tends to emphasize short-lived superficial relationships over true friendships. 🥺

OK, enough of that downside ... stuff. Time for the good stuff! On the upside - I spent all day yesterday with a good friend from another Chicago neighborhood, and also read some very nice compliment posts sent to me over the last couple of days ... these two things in conjunction made me feel nice inside and smile all day long. 😁

Step 60. I

Self care is important, especially when it feels like there is no time for it.

Im learning that to experience healing, you should first accept that you need to heal and second that you want to heal.