Graduation

I have been in a therapy program called DBT or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, for the last 14 months every single Wednesday night for 2 hours. Well tonight is my last night- I graduate! I completed the program! and it was NOT easy. It was a lot of hard work and a lot of life changing decisions and alterations i had to make to my life that was not so put together before this program. I am excited to graduate! But i will definitely miss my comrades in the group... i love those people. I am excited to be able to watch Modern Family live on TV on Wednesday night again :) yes, i am excited for that.

I feel very ready and prepared and i have a whole new bag full of effective coping skills for whatever life decides to throw at me. My old ways of coping with life were not so effective, and now those are all out back with the garbage. I am so thankful that i was able to do this program and it truly has completely changed my life. I am so grateful to the therapists who ran the group- they are very special people you know? therapists. they are Saints to me, not just therapists. absolutely amazing people, a whole different breed of humans.

So world, HERE I COME! no more self hate, no more self destruction, no more not treating myself with kindness, no more turning pain into misery ("Pain is inevitable, misery is optional.") no more retreating when life gets hard, no more making things worse when things are already hard, no more kicking myself when i'm down, no more watching life be lived for me... i take control, it's my life- I CHOOSE... and i CHOOSE TO LIVE A FULL AND RICH LIFE NO MATTER WHAT IT THROWS AT ME. I CHOOSE ME, I CHOOSE MY OWN HEART, AND I CHOOSE HAPPINESS.