Facing Our Darker Side

[MajestyJo]

More language of letting go

Say when it’s time to disengage

“Run, duck, hide.”

It’s a motto that has served me well, particularly since I moved to California. “It takes money and a car to live here,” a friend told me once. He was right. And those who don’t have money or a car may try to take yours, I learned soon after that.

Manipulations, scams, and disturbed people abound.

They can be found anywhere. And sometimes these people are not all that disturbed. They’re just going through their stuff, and it doesn’t involve or pertain to us.

Sometimes, it doesn’t make any sense to be therapeutic, helpful, or nice when other people are trying to dump their insanity on you. It will only get you in deeper. Using any rules of engagement will simply mean you’re engaged. Disengage immediately.

Learn when to use your social skills. And learn when it’s time to run, duck, or hide.

God, help me detach when immediate disengagement is what’s required.

Liked this, we don't always have to be in there like a dirty shirt as my mom use to say. We can detach and allow people to learn their own lessons. We can make suggestions and share what worked for us, but what that other person did with it is none of our business.

We are a conduit, we share our message of recovery, with the hope it will help someone else. We don't have to know, we just have to sow.