God, I feel myself spiraling downward, sometimes at an incredibly fast pace, to a place where a silent, sane part of me sits in a corner and watches my mind and body become overtaken with the actions and obessions of my disease.
Something inside me is so afraid, it is craving what I now know it believes is that safe place of total acceptance in my sexuality. When my counselor talks about going to "a safe place inside my head" as I try to process the feelings that come up as a result of EMDR ... she means I should breathe into images of that quiet morning sitting on a bench watching the ocean and the tide and hearing the birds. But that is not the safe place my mind is taking me.
Every day it feels like a miracle that I didn't act out. If I make it through today without acting out it will be another miracle. I am in such a place of surrendering to my disease.
I prayed this morning saying "I'm trying to feel the feelings," and the response thought was, "Are you really trying?" OK, so let's try, "I want to feel the feelings," to which the response thought is, "You have to really try then, like a sportsman training for a race, you have to push yourself and not give in to the temptations to quit."
I pray for the willingness today to try. That feels like the best I can do.
Maybe I’m Regaining a Religion
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Hugs, Rae.
I think I might know what you mean. At one point I tried to let my guard down and let myself feel loved by what I believe is my higher power. But as I let myself be open to that, I started to panic and feel like I couldn't breathe, like the awesomeness of it was too much, maybe more than I deserved. Or something. I've been scared to try it again.
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