VICTIMIZATION
“Within each of us lies the power of
our
consent to health and to sickness,
I have lived most of my life believing that I was a victim of circumstance.
As a “victim” I believed I had no power, no options, no choices, no hope
and no control in my life. It’s so tempting to be a victim. If I’m a
victim, I am not responsible for anything. Every pain, every dysfunction,
every addiction, every problem was not my “fault” and there was nothing I
could do to improve my life. Or so I thought.
One day at a time...
~ Lisa V.
to riches and to poverty, to freedom and to slavery.
It is we who control these, and not another.”
Richard Bach
One day a friend asked me if I actually wanted to be well and I was shocked
to find that the immediate answer flooding from my heart was, “NO.” Wow!
You would think that a victim would give anything in order to be well,
yet I found that I was terrified of the responsibility of being well.
If I were well, I would be in charge of my own choices – particularly the
most primal choices of all: Life or Death, holding onto powerlessness, or
reaching out to grasp hope and health.
I am still tempted to return to the false security of victim-hood. Yet I
come to recovery, and keep coming back. I work the program, I learn, I
fail, I fall. I rise again and begin again.
I will remember that I have the power, the
freedom, and the responsibility to make choices which move me towards
health. I will resist the siren call of victimization.
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