Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
The trickster characters found in different world cultures are most often loved and seen as attractive, despite their comical flaws. Trickster energy, so often engaged in stepping beyond social norms, asks us to examine the question of what being attractive really means. At the same time, much of the trickster’s power is rooted in an ever-changing image.
Internet stories abound of people putting up one face on social media or dating websites while their “in-person” reality looks quite different. Why is there this need to pretend to be someone other than who we are? Usually it is based on some aspect of ourselves that we deem unacceptable, whether this is physical appearance or a specific character quality that does not quite measure up to some mysterious standard.
Much of the language of the Twelve Steps is about defects of character, and even though we stand firm in recovery, we may still view ourselves as somehow broken and unworthy. The first step in generating the energy of being attractive to others is to accept ourselves as we are, right now, this moment. Not some new and improved version we think we need to be, but the authentic being we see staring back at us in the mirror. We are all works in progress, learning to love who we are each step of our recovery journey.
I am whole right now, and ever changing, evolving into my amazing greatness!
Hazelden Foundation
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