Saboteurs, Appreciators, and Captains
In the world of Life Coaching there are all sorts of names you give the tokens you are moving around on the Game of Life. The Captain I had visualized as a Stick Figure, which fit the game perfectly since I’m hairless and starting over and a Stick Figure is as elemental a drawing as you can get. So I can dress, put hair on, make my Stick Figure into anything I want my Captain to be from here on out. Not a bad deal.
Then there were the Saboteurs – the devils that wake me in the middle of the night when they know I’m at my most vulnerable and tell me things like – IT’S NOT GOING TO BE OKAY – and I’ve learned to talk back, not scream back, but just chant myself into a meditation that leads me back to lala land where I can slumber.
Now the Appreciator has been the tough one – I always had a good friend in my appreciator who believed mainly what my momma told me – I can be anything in the world I decide to be – but that inner appreciator got some come uppance as of late and has been slightly challenged in its job. I learned today that those devilish saboteurs are at war with my appreciators – full blown war. Weapons of Mass Destruction and all sorts of other imaginary evils lurking.
So Stick Figure has to come out and take control and let the Appreciators do their thing and silence the Saboteurs so that the Appreciators can help the Captain guide me to my life’s purpose (which btw seems overwhelming right now). It’s been bloody exhausting over here just keeping up with the game.