Daily Gratitude: Boy, is this appropriate for this week. Every day there has been something that, at first, could be interpreted as a mistake (whether it is or not didn’t matter to my parts. What mattered was how my system felt about it). After about 4 of these incidents I just wanted to find a home and crawl in it. But fortunately, my IFS training has taught me to look at these events as opportunities to learn and get to know the parts within me that are over reacting perhaps. IFS has also given me a chance to see that these things are just lessons, not mistakes. A year or two ago I would i would have told you that that was total BS. But now I believe it. There is much I have already gleaned from examining the events of this week and more I will learn when I delve into them deeper. In the past “mistakes” would have devastated me and stopped me from continuing to do something. Now I am savvy enough and curious enough to actually do the work to learn from them.