August 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The child feels he must perform or do well to earn a parent’s love.’” BRB p. 30 For many of us, we had to perform appropriately to get any feeling of love or acceptance as children. But conditional love was the only love, if any, that we…
August 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “A good therapist….Should ask you about trauma and abuse, including child sexual abuse, if there are clear indicators of family history, acting-out behavior, records, or other discernible factors.’” BRB p. 462 Some of us have been in therapy with people who mirrored our abusive parents. They told…
August 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The level of pain that adult children can tolerate without admitting they have hit a bottom is astonishing.’” BRB p. 68 “We learned to live with pain as children and continued to do so as adults. When faced with the pain of toxic relationships. We slip into…
August 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “In ACA, we take a spiritual and not religious approach to healing the effects of being raised in a dysfunctional home.’” BRB p. 76 “The writers of the 12 Steps knew that, even though we claimed to be spiritual, the use of the word “GOD” could be…