{"id":1102,"date":"2016-10-26T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thecelebritytherapist\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2016-10-26T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:31:24","slug":"enjoying-good-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thecelebritytherapist\/2016\/10\/enjoying-good-days.html","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the good days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"good-luck\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi everyone.\u00a0 Today I want to talk about the idea of enjoying the good days.\u00a0 I know it sounds like a simple, self-explanatory topic, but for a lot of us, it can be a daunting thing to have a good day!<\/p>\n

For a long time, as love addicts and codependents, we lived in fear and misery.\u00a0 Nothing was going right in our lives.\u00a0 We tried to control, but the chaos just grew stronger.\u00a0 We felt let down by others, and by our higher powers, and also by ourselves.\u00a0 For some of us, it may have taken a long time to see the light at the end of the tunnel.\u00a0 Because there is one.<\/p>\n

Recovery is not something you go into to find a cure to make yourself magically better.\u00a0 It is a lot of hard, emotional work, and for that reason we each take it at our own pace.\u00a0 A lot of days are struggles, and many of them do not fall under the category of good days.\u00a0 But the beauty is that we start to actually have good days.\u00a0 Before, we had no good days.\u00a0 Now, we find that we are having one or more a week!\u00a0 It\u2019s thrilling.\u00a0 But it also comes with anxiety.<\/p>\n

For us, good feelings might not have lasted long at all.\u00a0 Whenever we had a good feeling, or a good day, or had something really wonderful happen, it was following by the proverbial other shoe dropping.\u00a0 We have been trained to expect dark after the light, rather than the light after the dark.\u00a0 It\u2019s a hard habit to break, and one that I still find myself doing here and there.\u00a0 None of us are perfect!<\/p>\n

But we should celebrate our good days!\u00a0 For one, we can celebrate that we have them.\u00a0 And two, it will help us see that a good day is a good day, and a bad day after it doesn\u2019t have to spoil my good day today.\u00a0 We can take it one day at a time, and enjoy our good day.\u00a0 When we let anxiety cloud our good times, we lose out on enjoying the good.\u00a0 It\u2019s scary to have a bad day, but it is just that – a bad day.\u00a0 There will be another day after it, and it may be great!\u00a0 By savoring our good days, we can have something to look forward to.\u00a0 We know that they are possible!\u00a0 And we can see them happen more and more as we work through our recovery.\u00a0 Good days don\u2019t have to be daunting – they can be just that – a good day!<\/p>\n

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Sherry Gaba, LCSW, Radio Host, Certified Transformation Coach and author of\u00a0 the award winning book, The Law of Sobriety:Attracting Positive Energy for a Powerful Recovery and Ecourse www.wakeuprecovery.com. www.sherrygaba.com <\/em>sherry@sgabatherapy.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Find out if you are #codependent. Take my quiz.\u00a0 <\/em>http:\/\/sherrygaba.com\/co-dependency-quiz\/<\/em><\/a> 30 minute strategy session with Sherry http:\/\/sherrygaba.com\/product\/30-minute-strategy-session-sherry-gaba\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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