Sept 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn to be in the moment and to be present in our bodies. We learn that our thoughts can end.” BRB p. 266 “When we got to ACA, we may have never felt what it was like to be in our bodies and experience our feelings.…
Sept 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Before recovery some of us spent countless hours in resentment….” BRB p.380 “Many of us come into ACA with seething resentments. We can be recognized by the hundred-pound resentment rock around our necks. Convinced that the rock was placed there by others, we hang onto it as…
Sept 22, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader We run about attempting to control others and situations in an effort to avoid our own unmanageable lives.” BRB p. 104 “The need to try to control the people and things around us can be so strong. We may have this idea in our minds about how…
Sept 21, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Every adult child has unexpressed grief, which is usually represented by the symptoms of depression, lethargy, or forms of dissociation.” BRB p. 199 “We pretended for years that we were responsible for our own depression. We took drugs and acted out to combat the feelings that came…