Having been there myself and having met so many others who are there as well, the one message that really needs to be sent out to those who are battling with addictions is: You are not bad; you are a spiritual being choosing a human experience called addiction.\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 You can choose again, right here, right now. You can decide to be a person who in the past struggled with addiction.<\/p>\n
There is a viral letter going around Facebook right now that is finding its way into many people\u2019s lives, and I would like to share that message with you here in this column today because I find it to be a very important piece of knowledge for people suffering through the hardship of addiction.<\/p>\n
The following \u00a0was written by a woman named Courtney A. Walsh.<\/p>\n
“Dear Human:\u00a0 You\u2019ve got it all wrong.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t come here to master unconditional love.\u00a0 That is where you came from and where you\u2019ll return. You came here to learn personal love.\u00a0 Universal love.\u00a0 Messy love.\u00a0 Sweaty love.\u00a0 Crazy love. Broken love.\u00a0 Whole love.\u00a0 Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of\u2026 messing up —- often.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t come here to be\u00a0perfect.\u00a0 You already are.\u00a0 You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous.\u00a0 And then to rise again into remembering. But unconditional love? Stop telling that story.\u00a0 Love, in truth, doesn\u2019t need ANY other adjectives.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t require modifiers.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t require the condition of perfection.\u00a0 It only asks that you show up. And do your best. That you stay present and feel fully. That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU.\u00a0 It\u2019s enough.\u00a0 It\u2019s plenty.”<\/p>\n
There are two specific parts to this letter that I find to be powerful and healing.\u00a0 The first is that our love can be demonstrated through \u201cmessing up.\u201d \u00a0 In the writing of CWG, God makes it clear in his message:<\/p>\n
\u201cTaken to ultimate logic, you cannot experience yourself as what you are until you\u2019ve encountered what you are not. This is the purpose of the theory of relativity, and all physical life. It is by that which you are not that you yourself are defined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n It is pretty clear that active addiction is not ultimately who we really are.\u00a0 For most of us, our behavior impacted others negatively, criminally, selfishly, and even ruthlessly.\u00a0 All of these things we have done out of the distorted view of love we have.\u00a0 Some feel the bar of morality is set to high for them to achieve, others do not feel worthy of love.\u00a0 The one thing I am more sure of now than ever is that we are all worthy of love, regardless of our past.<\/p>\n When in the depths of addictive behavior, we are always one decision away from freedom.\u00a0 We can \u201crise again into remembering,\u201d as Courtney points out in her letter, \u201cYou didn\u2019t come here to be perfect, you already are.\u201d\u00a0 You did come here to experience life and realize your wholeness. We tend to forget this or simply haven\u2019t awakened to this yet.\u00a0 Maybe the message hasn\u2019t been delivered in just the right way for you to hear it. It is my hope that this column can send that message.<\/p>\n The second part of this \u201cDear Human\u201d letter that strikes a chord within me is this: \u201cIt (love) doesn\u2019t require the condition of perfection.\u00a0 It only asks that you show up.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>In fact you are showing up. \u00a0You can\u2019t not show up for life. You can, however, check out of life.\u00a0 And active addiction is just that, checking out. Making a decision to give life a chance without your addiction gives you the opportunity to \u201cshow up\u201d as a more complete version of who you really are.<\/p>\n In CWG Book 1, God calls what we are doing here Re-membering.\u00a0 And it is we who choose this remembering.\u00a0 And choosing to remember who we really are is a pure act of creation. \u00a0So why not put to rest the current story you are telling about who you are and awaken to the next grandest version of you?\u00a0 Have you not experienced the darkness of addiction enough?\u00a0 Are you aware that enough is enough when you say it is?\u00a0 You are not powerless, you are not a victim, you are God living a human experience.<\/p>\n Your awakening will not be without reward. Life after addiction is filled with many gratifying experiences. \u00a0The beauty of the light after living in the darkness has been experienced by millions of people who are living long-term recovery.\u00a0 The journey of many recovering people has included joining together to support one another and ultimately share their gifts with other like-minded people.<\/p>\n “Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to re-member who everyone else is. That is why a big part of your job is to remind others (that is, to re-mind them), so that they can remember also. All the wonderful spiritual teachers have been doing just that. It is your sole purpose. That is to say, your soul purpose.” CWG Book 1.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n *Courtney A. Walsh can be found easily through Google by searching for \u201cDear Human.\u201d The original intent from Courtney was for this to be\u00a0“the seed of an empowerment movement for suicide prevention and bullying awareness.”<\/p>\n (Kevin McCormack, C.A.d ,is a certified addictions professional and auriculotherapist. \u00a0He is a recovering addict with 26 years of sobriety. Kevin is a practicing auriculotherapist, recovery coach, and interventionist\u00a0specializing\u00a0in individual and family recovery. \u00a0Kevin has a passion for holistic living, personal awareness training, and physical meditation. You can visit his website<\/i>\u00a0Life<\/i><\/a>\u00a0After Addicton<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/i>\u00a0To connect with Kevin, please email him at\u00a0<\/i>Kevin@TheGlobalConversation.com<\/i><\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having been there myself and having met so many others who are there as well, the one message that really needs to be sent out to those who are battling with addictions is: You are not bad; you are a spiritual being choosing a human experience called addiction.\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 You can choose again, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[335,1611,1610,1612,1613,708,258],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction-and-recovery","tag-bullying","tag-courtney-a-walsh","tag-dear-human","tag-facebook-viral-letter","tag-messy-love","tag-suicide","tag-unconditional-love"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}