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Kevin Odom

Professional at Novant Health

~ Internal Power, Internal Resource ~ Alcoholics Anonymous says that “Our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource…” When I read this, I often about Existentialism and some of its tenets. Freedom and responsibility are two of its ideologies. Freedom is recognizing that we are each free to choose and make decisions & responsibility teaches us that we are responsible for our choices. This responsibility & freedom allows us to live authentically, without the need to live up to extrinsic authorities, societal norms, and the like, to dictate our life. Marcus Aurelius wrote about the ’10 Stoic Rules’ and Rule #1 reads, “You have power over your mind not outside events....

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