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Finding your own truth
Submitted by: Angela
Vancouver BCI am a 54 year old woman learning that I deserve love. Growing up, everything I loved was always taken away from me. I was not allowed to have love from my father, siblings, pets, relatives, or friends. My mother taught me that I did not deserve love from anywhere or anything.
I had suffered through many addictions, mostly depression, and was put on pills. I was also addicted to alcohol and sex. I quit all of these things many years ago. What I figured out a few years ago was that the depression stemmed from the internal argument that I was having about knowing that I deserved love but was taught that I didn’t.
I had spent years, up until about seven years ago, in abusive relationships, starting in my childhood. I kept trying to figure out what was wrong with me, why I always felt so bad. It was because there was no recognition of love inside of me that I could find. I went to all kinds of therapists, psychiatrists, even hypnotherapists, tried every kind of healing modality out there. Nothing changed that I noticed.
I listened to The Secret all the time when it came out, and things changed. I realized I felt guilty for feeling love, or having love in my life on whatever level it appeared, so I would quickly lose it. Now I have been listening to The Power and all the stirrings that were created by The Secret and the removal of all the wrong teachings that I learned have opened up a new pathway of thinking, and I have finally realized what I had been struggling with all this time. Love. It has been the hardest thing for me to invite into my life.
I feel as if a million burdens have been lifted off of me. When you ask, the answers will come, just as Rhonda wrote in The Power. I use gratitude for overcoming my fears, I use gratitude for love, and now I don’t run from it, I let it wash over me and fill me. When I feel myself getting anxious about it, I listen to The Power and everything changes.
Thank you for writing The Secret and The Power – they have changed my life.
Angela