Frank Brown
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Frank Brown
- "Your point of view is something personal to you. It is no one's truth but yours. Then, if you get mad at me, I know you are dealing with yourself. I am the excuse for you to get mad. And you get mad because you are afraid, because you are dealing with fear."
from Sometimes the Problem Is You by The Small Bow
- I’m not fatalistic, I just believe that life is about being open to whatever comes next. I also know that when I haven’t learned what I need to, well, the Universe has the tendency to keep throwing me that same pitch until I learn what to do with it.
from Seeking and Finding - By T.B.D. by substack.com
- W e, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have re-covered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
from Foreword to First Edition by Alcoholics Anonymous
Note to Self: Maybe the real flex is letting people feel, say, and think what they want about you, while you continue living with ease, knowing their projections aren’t yours to carry. Remembering who you are and what your truth is can protect your peace.
- "I was always loved, but I always wondered, also, what that love depended on." (Leslie Jamison, The Recovering)
- I’m ashamed of my neediness of not wanting to be abandoned. I don’t want to be cast off and unloved.
from Here's how you will feel better
- classic Adult Child of Alcoholics, afraid of conflict and largely focused on the need for everything to be OK
from It's such a gamble when you get a face
- accept that sometimes terrible things happen and they are in themselves meaningless and without comprehensible reason.
from DeSantis Vetoes All Art Grants in Florida & Climate Change Deniers are Killing Us
Response to “Everything happens for a reason.”
