I really needed this post so much!!..Thank you for the amazing reminder that we are in control of our individual selves and our actions/reactions and emotions are the biggest responsibility we have.
I love that picture as well, it’s just so sweet and spot on.
Thank you, every day, sometimes more, I come here for help finding answers for this battle. So many of you have provided such wisdom and with that comes great encouragement… be well.
Great share. Thank you 
Thank you for that post 
The last weeks have been stressful. I let the gossipping and toxicity from work travel home with me, kept it in my head where it became more and more powerful and finally started to drain me.
Yesterday I started to take vitamins again. I’ll reduce bad foods (chips and all kind of sweets I inhaled over the last weeks) and have to start taking care of me. In the end this creates happyness, when I know I treat myself well 
Thanks for the reminder.
I was just talking to my therapist about this at my last session. I feel like I’ve lost the ability to be happy. I find that in moments when I should feel happiness I just feel “meh”. I think I’ve convinced myself that I don’t deserve happiness or something.
I CAN feel happiness FOR someone else. Like at my daughter’s play, or my other daughter’s dance recital, I can feel happy for them. Happy with their success after months of hard work etc. I can feel happy for someone else if they get a promotion or something. But I never feel happiness for ME.
Anyways. Recently it was posted here on the Motivation and Meditation post a fabulous quote from Carlos Santana.
“Happiness is not a destination or a feeling. It is a decision.”
That hit me right in the gut. WOW. It is time for me to decide that I do deserve to feel happy!!!
I’ve always had plenty in my life to be happy about, but I was stubborn as could be in holding tight to my negative emotions. That was my barrier. I wouldn’t let them go until the root cause of them was changed to let things work my way. Since I started learning to stop that nonsense, I’ve had happiness more and more. Can’t take cookies out of the jar with hands full of rocks.
Everyday I wake up I struggle with resentments and anger. There are times when all is calm and I feel contentment but it is is short bursts. I struggle with letting go of things I cannot change. I have read books, gone to meetings, prayed whatever I could think of. It is like have a toolbox full of tools but don’t know how they work. Your right though happiness and letting go is a decision. I have make the choice to let go and be happy. That means I have to pause and not react to situations. Keep working on you. It will all fall into place one day when you are not paying attention.
Exactly!! Happiness is a lifelong project, it’s fluid and there is really no standard measure. I think we all deal with resentments, I’m just trying to work through mine, and not let them cloud an otherwise sunny day!!
These are stunning
Are the trees birtch?? They’re my absolute favorite
You and I think alike
The picture is the cutest!!! I need reminders everyday, especially with the kids. Today I felt like screaming… but I had to take some deep breaths and count my blessings instead. Some days are much harder than others
Awe you’re the sweetest!! Girl if anyone can teach about finding light in the dark it’s you!! Seriously 
I absolutely love that quote, so so much. It’s spot on, we need to choose happiness and then navigate the best path to reach it everyday 
This is some grade A insight right here my friend!! I’m glad you and your spouse both realized this. My husband still holds lots of resentments, and has very poop coping skills, and I try to help him without compromising my own well being. It’s tough!
My coping skills are poop too. 
Great post, my eye opening lesson becoming sober has been forgiving and leaving it in the past, that is the only way I can bring myself to true happiness, I released the chains that I put on myself. How freeing it has been!!!
