August 19, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “With emotional sobriety, reparenting ourselves becomes a reality in our lives.” BRB p. 265 “Our program calls us to recognize the truth within us. A beginning truth is that our families, in their unfinished spiritual states, corrupted our thinking. As young children, we could relate to no…
August 18, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “With willingness, we are well on our way to recovery.” BRBp.50 In the rooms of recovery, we learn to use the acronym HOW: Honest, Open-minded, and Willing. In ACA, we need to be all three. However, willingness may well be the key to doing the work it…
August 17, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn that real choice is God’s gift to us for letting go.” BRBp.155 As children, we may have felt trapped in an unhappy home life because we had no control over a parent’s drinking or other family dysfunction. We carry this feeling into adulthood, often feeling…
August 16, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The healing we receive by giving service in ACA removes our deep feelings of inferiority in giving and receiving love. Our sense of inadequacy begins to disappear when we see the value of the service we give.” BRBp.363 “In a myriad of ways most of us were…