Learn to Love Your Flaws!
“Many people, especially cancer patients, grow up believing that there is some terrible flaw at the center of their being. A defect they must hide if they are to have any chance for love.” Dr. Bernie Siegel , Love, Medicine & Miracles Most every addict grows up believing that they are inherently flawed in an unacceptable and unchangeable way. This is certainly what I learned at a very young age: That I had major flaws that made me unlovable. Deep down, all of us know what are alleged flaws are. We’ve been carrying them around like boulders inside of us for years and years. As a result, these flaws have been major stumbling blocks in all of our relationships. Either we’ve lived with the crippling fear that if someone we love finds out, we will lose their love. Or we’ve never even allowed ourselves to truly open up to love for fear of being “found out.” And so we’ve used our flaws like two-edged swords to 1) beat ourselves with and: 2) to thrust at other people in ord...