Dear Ann:

Mindfulness works for you when you practice it. Please practice it often.

You look for clues about what to do in other people, looking for them to show you the way. But those people you are looking for information about where to go and how to live your life, these people either don’t know themselves how to live and/ or they want what they want at any one moment and will point for you to walk the way that will get them what they want.

Better you choose your own way. As confused as you are, you still have a better chance to be okay if you follow your own way than if you put your trust in other people.

As confused as you are, as weak as you feel sometimes, you are better off exercising your own brain than being a … follower or worse, a victim of someone else.

You wrote that your father was mean with his words. What kinds of things did he say to you? What was his tone? How often? And when did he stop, or did he?

anita