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Sonshine Wellness Center
  • Home
  • Service and Intervention
  • Fees and Policies
  • Our Team
  • FAQ
  • Resources
    • Empathy VS Sympathy
    • Self-Compassion
    • Making Your Marriage Work
    • Guilt VS Shame
    • Anxiety
    • Feelings Wheel
    • LGBTQIA+
    • The 5 Love Languages
    • Stages of Change
    • The Four Horsemen
    • Trauma Responses
    • Sexual Self-Esteem
    • Lets talk about SEX
    • Inner Child Wounds
    • Love Bombing
    • Gaslighting

Stages of change

There are 5 stages of change - precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance

Here is a wonderful explanation of what that looks like...


There's A Hole In My Sidewalk by Portia Nelson

(Autobiography in Five Chapters)



Chapter One

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost . . . 

I am helpless.

It isn’t my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.


Chapter Two

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don’t see it.

I fall in again.

I can’t believe I am in this same place.

But it isn’t my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.


Chapter Three

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in . . . 

it’s a habit . . . 

but,

My eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.


Chapter Four

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.


Chapter Five

I walk down another street.

Yesterday i was clever, so i wanted to change the world today i am wise, so i am changing myself.


-Rumi

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