Been Thinking About Change (Laura Sportack)

Laura Sportack, a friend as well as the chaplain at GF Strong (Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver), has been thinking about change. Here are her thoughts and you could add your own.

• — Moving from where one is to where one wants to be.
• — A decision made out of necessity.
• — Deciding to do something good with painful memories.
• — The undoing of a habitual action, response, thought, emotion.
• — Behaviours that assume a different sequencing or timing.
• — A choice to act on thinking rather than, or at least more than, feeling.
• — Using different language to describe an emotion or an action.
• — An achievable hope.
• — Listening instead of speaking.
• — For the better or for the worse, and sometimes it is hard to tell which it is.
• — Not always noticed by others.
• — Identifiable.
• — Simultaneously intrapersonal and interpersonal.
• — A measured response, not a spontaneous or intuitive reaction.
• — Specific to a need.
• — When you are afraid and decide to go ahead with it anyhow.
• — Forgiving yourself and others before you understand how you failed.
• — God’s way of saving me.

If Laura sounds like a therapist, she is also that. Thanks Laura for your list. (And you might wish to click on the “change” tag below to read some other thoughts on changing.)