One of the first things I did on my road to recovery is I picked up a book with a friend called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. This book is inspiring. It starts with small steps and focuses on you explicitly. For so long I had been focused on someone else. Making someone else happy. Do you know how hard it is to be focused on just yourself. To be self-full (not selfish, they are different) and to worry only about what makes you smile? Well my suggestion (and Gretchen's) is to start with a list the makes you happy. I think this list can be constantly changing depending on the day, year, your mood, your friends, etc. I suggest to post it somewhere where you can see it and remind yourself that you are a priority in your own life.
What makes me happy:
My niece and nephew, the first snowfall, directing, writing, cactus cut potatoes, fresh laundry, Sunday dinners, documentaries, reading the newspaper, soccer, musicals, plays, new hair colouring, shampoo massages, Planet Earth movies, travelling, road trips, white wine, my Saturday ladies....I'm going to keep thinking about this :-)
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