Call To Adventure: Online Workshop
Denial is normal. It is a defense we use in childhood and sometimes denial gets us through the day, through a childhood. In childhood denial can be life-saving. It allows us to create a world where we feel safe and loved, where we can function. There we can find some sunshine. However, the same denial brought forward from childhood into our adult experience can be devastating. It can lead to the tragedy of not knowing who we are, of remaining immature, allowing unhealthy people and circumstances into our lives and most tragically not following our rightful dreams. We have the illusion that everything is okay and if it isn’t that we are victims of some outside condition and there is nothing we can do to make it better. We can have the illusion that time heals all wounds, that all we need is time and that time is in abundance. But it isn’t. Don’t waste your life in denial. You’re running out of time.
Part 4: My Denial
Part 5: Acknowledging My Resistance
Part 6: Finding Support From Within
Part 8: Overcoming My Resistance
Part 10: Finding My Warrior Spirit
Part 11: Identifying Childhood Pain
Part 12: Facing My Childhood Pain
Part 13: Rescuing My Inner Child
Guided Meditation
Music Video: “Running Out Of Time”
Song Lyrics
You say everything is all right
That things will be just fine
But what will you do when its in your face
When you’re running out of time
You think that if you look away
The problem will disappear
You think that it just won’t stay
That there is nothing for you here
You are running out of time
The days are passing by
The here and now is yours and mine
The danger’s getting high
You say you want to go away
To leave it all alone
If you don’t even try to stay
You’ll never find your home
You want to have it easy
You want to have no pain
You think you’re light and breezy
But your thinking is insane
You are running out of time
The days are passing by
The here and now is yours and mine
The danger’s getting high
You are running out of time
The days are passing by
The here and now is yours and mine
The danger’s getting high
You are running out of time
The days are passing by
The here and now is yours and mine
The danger’s getting high
You are running out of time
The days are passing by
The here and now is yours and mine
The danger’s getting high
The Important Questions To Ask Yourself
Answer the question(s) that best fits your problem or goal. Then listen or read you answer looking for insights.
1. I am angry that I have to deal with this problem.
How have I contributed to its creation?
2. I have stopped feeling.
How and why have I numbed myself?
3. What are the lies I have been telling myself for years?
Describe in detail.
4. I am fine most of the time. I don’t really need to do this.
How can I get past my denial so I can resolve this problem?
5. I don’t think the problem is mine.
I think that everything would be OK if other(s) would change.How do I contribute to this problem?
6. I feel like I am a victim and the problem is not my fault.
How have I set myself up as a victim? Where did I learn to think this way?
7. I realize that I must be denying something but I don’t know what.
This is my guess at what it might be.