ARAFMI Tasmania

An Association of Friends and Relatives of the Mentally Ill (Tasmania) Incorporated

Letting Go - Acceptance

· To ‘Let Go’ does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to cut myself off, it’s the realisation that I can’t control another.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to try and change and blame another, it’s to make the most of myself – now.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to care for, but to care about.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to fix, but to be supportive.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their destinies.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to be protective, it’s to permit others to face reality.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to deny, but to accept. It is not resignation.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to nag, scold or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day, each moment,  as it comes and cherish myself in it.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to criticize and regulate everybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.

· To ‘Let Go’ is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

· To ‘Let Go’ is to fear less, and love more.

· To ‘Let Go’ is to accept powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

· To ‘Let Go’ is to allow learning from natural consequences.

Reprinted with kind permission from Holyoake Tas Inc