Sept 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn to reparent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love and respect.” BRB p. 590 “We may have grown up thinking that some people just knew how to love better than others. Perhaps we marveled at someone famous who seemed to have a deep, meaningful relationship with his…
Sept 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our search for our grief/loss can begin by asking this question? ‘What did I receive from my dysfunctional family and what would I have received from loving parents in the same situation?” BRB p. 204 “We grew up with expectations of normal, supportive behavior, but our expectations…
Sept 3, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” BRB p. 235 Amends can be scary. It’s hard having to admit we are wrong or that we did something to harm another. We learn that our first amends…
Sept 2, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader Trait Ten “We have ‘stuffed’ our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings because it hurts so much (Denial).” BRB p. 17 If we came to ACA from another program and were familiar with Step work, we may…