August 27, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “I decided the only way to overcome this self-sabotage was to integrate my critical parent into my recovery process.” BRBp.207 “We tried to ignore our critical inner parent – that compilation of the voices we heard as children and were used to hearing in our heads. If…
August 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “With the help of ACA, we are offering our parents fairness as we look at the family system with rigorous honesty. We are looking for the truth so that we can live our own lives with choice and self-confidence. We want to break the cycle of family…
August 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “By working the ACA program, we learn to recognize when we are thinking like a victim or a persecutor and to talk about it.” BRBp.9 “Since the Laundry List was such an important part of our original identification when we found ACA, we used that mindset (how…
August 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “It is my bias that no one deserves to live a life of fear and shame.” BRB p. xviii Many ACAs go from blaming, shaming, complaining, and condemning ourselves and others to finally learning to name what is really going on. By doing so, we begin to…