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a life worth living

Something in my life has to change.  I've started this blog and a google+ community as a way to (hopefully) hold myself accountable and keep myself on the DBT path so that I keep learning and moving forward towards recovery. I can't afford therapy right now, so this is what I can manage. Hopefully with peer feedback and discussing the exercises in the DBT Skills Workbook with others it will be similar to group therapy in a way and I can still get something out of it.

My only problem is, I'm motivated now. At this second.  I could fall to pieces tomorrow morning and care less about blogging or even recovery. But we can't focus on the what ifs, right? Have to keep looking forward, thinking forward and positive.

I want to get better. I have to get better if I ever want to have a life worth living. It's no longer a choice.  One way or the other, I am going to do everything I possibly can to get better.

Today I am making a commitment to myself.

• I will blog at least once a day.
• I will read in my DBT workbook and practice my DBT skills at least once a day.
• I will post to my google+ community at least once a week, hopefully more.

Other things I am working on:

• Not saying "can't" or "should."
• Re-framing my thoughts and words to stop surrounding myself with negativity. 

Sometimes it may seem like a lot, but I can do this. I will.