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The hour afterStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

If you are reading this an hour after it happened, you are the person it was written for and you are not in the wrong place. There is nothing to count here and no streak to lose. Two things go outside a course, and quickly. If you are having thoughts that the world would be better without you, or that you are beyond forgiving, tell somebody today, because shame and secrecy together are what make that dangerous. And if any of this has involved a child, there is specialist help, it exists to be used, and there will not be one word of shaming from us. Lesson six has the routes for both.

Lesson 4 of 6

The change is not the one you came for

You came here to stop the behaviour. What this lesson offers is something else, and it is worth reading the reason before you decide it is a lesser offer.

The behaviour is the first thing. The hour afterwards is the second thing. Everything in lesson two points at the same conclusion, which is that the second thing is what makes the next first thing more likely.

So the second thing is where the leverage is. It is also, and this matters more than it sounds, the part that is available to you tonight, whatever happened this week. You cannot go back and change the first thing. You can change what the hour is made of.

Stopping the second thing · Inshirah