Thursday, June 15, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
The truth shall make you free.
— From John 8:32
Some of us have been so angry for so long that we don’t even know we’re angry anymore. Much like the effect of prolonged hunger — over time, the perception of hungriness changes to a more generalized perception of sickness. We tend to blot out what doesn’t get acknowledged or resolved. Or we translate it into something else.
Because good children didn’t act out anger (or so we thought), we learned very early to turn anger into hurt. And there it may well have stayed for many years, mislabeled and unrecognized. As recovering adults, we are becoming aware that a hard core of anger is under all those layers of hurt feelings. We see now that it has come out sideways for years, bruising the people we love and damaging our relationships.
Thank God we’re finally able to name the problem. Naming it is the first step to doing something about it.
I will strive to see the truth, no matter how disagreeable, and name it what it is.
Hazelden Foundation
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