Sometimes we tell a sad story over and over again and that story begins to define who we are. It may seem like a way to understand what happened, or maybe it feels helpful to hear someone say you didn’t do anything wrong and you don’t deserve to hurt. And it’s okay if you need to tell that story for a while, as a way to process your feelings. However, if you do this for years it can keep you stuck living your life around a memory and giving it power to control you. And, in reality, there is no amount of reassurance that will change what happened to you. You can’t find happiness by holding onto a painful story and letting it control your life. You can only find happiness when you let it go and make room for something better. If telling your story empowers you and helps other people, then by all means share it! Only you know where you are mentally and emotionally and whether telling your story is hurting or helping you. Today, take some time to listen to the running narrative or the story that you tell yourself and others. Is it serving you any purpose anymore? Is it keeping you mired in the past. See whether it is really time to let go of that story that keeps you stuck and keeps you feeling and thinking like a victim Then, set your intentions to stop telling yourself and everyone else about the stories about how you've been wronged, about your suffering, your pain and ultimately how you are a helpless victim to your circumstances. Those stories do not define you unless you continue to let them. Today, change or let go of those stories that really don't serve you any longer and create new positive ones in their place. Your stories define who you are, change them up and you'll start to change your life. It may not be easy since your story has become a part of you, but you deserve the peace that will come when you finally allow yourself to let go.

Just for today, I recognize that it is my mind that creates my experiences and that I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my Life. I do not fix my problems. I fix my thinking and my problems fix themselves. I have the power to create all that I wish for with my mind and my thoughts. I am truly someone special. As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes. And so it is.