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Continuing with the theme of "if you're happy, you'll be good," I'd like to tell you about yet another handout I received during a twelve step women's retreat. (By the way, if you live in the New York State area, the annual Noel Retreat for Recovering Women will be held, as it has been for some forty years, at Christ the King Retreat House, 500 Brookford Road, Syracuse, NY 13224. The phone number is (315) 446-2680. The retreat goes from Friday at 5 p.m. and ends on Sunday at noon. This year's dates are December 3.4.5, 1999, and the retreat presenter will be Rev. Richard Hoar of Buffalo, NY.)
Taking good care of yourself is as helpful to you as my taking care of myself is to me. I can help you in many different ways. I can encourage you to take good care of yourself. Because when you do, you are happier. When you are happier, other people, including me, are happier when we are with you. I show you by example just how good it is for me and for people around me when I stop to take better care of myself. I feel balanced and caring when I am helping others take better care of themselves and when I am there for them. When you and I take very good care of ourselves, we are also helping take good care of others! So remember about taking care of "thee." "The more I take good care of myself, the less resentment and anger I feel and the more loving I become toward myself and others." "Thinking only of myself is like having only my favorite meal...meal...after meal...after meal...after meal...after meal... One of the best ways I can help other people is to encourage them to take better care of themselves.
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