Meeting Myself

The first thing I figured out about gaining greater peace for myself was that the drinking I was doing was just a mask for a deeper issue.  But in order to see that issue clearly, I had to stop drinking. That was the first step towards peace.

Once I had a good handle on the drinking, I took a good long assessment of the condition of my body. I had run it through the wringer, body and mind. A bottle of wine a day during the pandemic, constant doom and gloom scrolling on my phone, and the worst of all, criticizing myself constantly. That behavior made a complete mess of me by giving me deep frown lines, a pudgy red face, and an achey body from the alcohol poisoning. I had a feeble mental outlook from the crazy content on the phone and my own self hatred.

The first way I decided to change myself was to simply stop frowning.