My Sexuality

I want to share today's reading from Answers in the Heart, my daily meditation book for sex and love addicts. Today's entry talks about how one's sexuality is but one part of you, not your end all and be all. I need to remind myself of this daily!

• JULY 5 •
O Body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance? — W. B. Yeats

Sexuality is not something we do, but it’s part of who we are. We are physical, intellectual, emotional, sexual, and spiritual people, and all parts are equally important. To consider sexuality as energy, a state of being, rather than a state of activity, helps us put it back within ourselves as part of our healing and recovery. Part of our challenge as recovering people is to explore what healthy sexuality is and to decide what our values regarding our behavior are. We are responsible only for taking care of ourselves; it is not up to us to decide sexual issues for others or for society. It is more than enough to know our own needs and how we will meet them. We can give ourselves permission to put sexuality in its rightful place. It is an important part of who we are, but only a part and not the whole.

My sexuality is an expression of my spirituality, a part of myself I nurture and love.