JUDY EMERSON Author and Personal Coach

Yeah, I’m still here. Recentering. I wrote this letter to myself: Whenever things don’t go as I had hoped, I am not invited into insanity. That’s my addiction speaking. Every day, whether I like the circumstances offered or not, my challenge is still to uphold my own values and principles. My challenge is to ask for wisdom first. Get centered, quiet myself, listen for truth with a capital T, and do the next right thing. There will be mountains, and there will be troughs, and both directions will challenge me. So who am I when I don’t like events around me? Do I take that as an occasion to become my worst self? Or do I do what I can to trust that if it’s not fine, it’s not the end. More will be revealed. All I’m responsible for is my own action, in the present moment. I can’t control the past or the future. I can manage my own behavior, my own available choices, and ask for the wisdom to see the path. God help me today, and every day, to find a wise, compassionate course. To be the person my values direct me to be. And let go of resentment, and vengeance and whatever dark energy wants to spring from my old wounds. Today I will choose a better path. And don’t forget to breathe.