healing the Shame that Binds You-Thank you John Bradshaw for your courageous life.

This was the master piece that for me started a love affair, or as Pia Mellody stated, a joy/pain relationship with the recovery path

. I had no idea I was shame based. I just thought I was a bad person, of no value, and tried hard to always prove to myself and others that I was ok. It was exhausting, and lead me down the path of addiction, which nearly killed. Even to this day I have to work daily to maintain and hold a sense of value.

Please dont be put off by the time/era. The message is gold.

To A Child - Poem by Christopher Morley

(Bradshaw quotes this in video)

The greatest poem ever known

Is one all poets have outgrown:

The poetry, innate, untold,

Of being only four years old.

Still young enough to be a part

Of Nature's great impulsive heart,

Born comrade of bird, beast, and tree

And unselfconscious as the bee-

And yet with lovely reason skilled

Each day new paradise to build;

Elate explorer of each sense,

Without dismay, without pretense!

In your unstained transparent eyes

There is no conscience, no surprise:

Life's queer conundrums you accept,

Your strange divinity still kept.

Being, that now absorbs you, all

Harmonious, unit, integral,

Will shred into perplexing bits,-

Oh, contradictions of the wits!

And Life, that sets all things in rhyme,

may make you poet, too, in time-

But there were days, O tender elf,

When you were Poetry itself!

Christopher Morley