We don’t have to let flack pull us back into old ways if we’ve decided we want and need to change. ~ Beattie, Melody. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 80). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Real dictionaries define flack
as an agent, “one who provides publicity;
especially a press agent, a public relations flack.
The Urban dictionary better approaches
how we know the word, a synonym for
rubbish: crap, or abuse;
excess pressure on oneself;
burdens or weight
added by unnecessary trials
or psychological pressures.
Flack is not desirable,
none of us want it,
but it adheres to us,
defining us if we let it.
But we don’t have to let flack
pull us back into old ways
if we’ve decided we want
and need to change.
We alone define ourselves
and we are free to become
the person with whom we wish to live!