#droptherock

Think 🤔 outside the box 📦 mijo! #foralleternity #thinkoutsidethebox #droptherock #letgo #serenity #gratitude 🙏❤️ (at Lakewood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHA_OOLJifSw-Xxi-2vovExZ3ozb0bBDpFwuFY0/?igshid=1cyuokzcjo888

Omg how I always feel! #droptherock http://ift.tt/2tLKobw

Head to @visitdelray for another interactive art piece by @welivebig My Step Mom, Cathy and I took a walk over to it, identified what we wanted to let go, wrote it on our rocks, held our rocks and let them go into the pile, then selected our birds and let them #SOAR!! We headed off down the avenue, talking about what we let go, we ran into the artist herself @belmont.nancy!! #letgo #droptherock #fly #publicart #delrayva #visitdelray #vessance

#DROPTHEROCK Sisyphus Sport, Jana Sterbak,1997

It's as if I have another chance at life. I no longer have to drink. I no longer have to live a life that feels meaningless. It's at first an unbelievable feeling, but then it slowly becomes your very own reality: this life is ours and we can live it to the fullest! I no longer measure my self-worth by what others think of me; I'm able to be kind, thoughtful, caring, and compassionate because I want to be that person, not because I want people to like me and give me their approval. It makes me feel so free and so light, as if I've put down a heavy burden I didn't even know I was lugging around. I'm at that awkward stage where I'm not fully open; I'm still in the process, taking it slow because I still have a lot of fears and I'm not yet sure if I have enough trust in myself or others to be completely open and completely myself. I formerly used passive aggression, regular aggression, sarcasm, and other generally hurtful "survivor skills" to protect myself when around others. If people didn't like me, it was easy to say that they didn't know me because technically, I wasn't letting them know the real me. Only the self-conscious version. Only the version that walled-off others with those character defects. Abandoning those methods, or "dropping the rock", is really fucking scary and also really exciting. I'm so happy being a half-open flower right now :)