July 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” BRB p. 130 “Our parents had been our gods. This is normal for children because parents are their primary support system. “As adults, many of us had not progressed past this stage of…
July 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “People want recovery, but they prefer it be pain free. That is understandable, but unfortunately, identifying and feeling our feelings is a part of healing.” BRB Introduction p. xxiii “Feelings? What are those?!” As children from dysfunctional homes, if we cried, many of us were told, “Stop…
July 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Children of alcoholics are paralyzed by indecision when trying to separate emotionally from their homes.” BRB p. 87 “When we started telling our story in ACA, we may have felt like we were betraying everything we had ever known, and we were – but that was okay. …
July 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Genuine grieving for our childhood ends our morbid fascination with the past and lets us return to the present, free to live as adults. Confronting years of pain and loss at first seems overwhelming.” BRB p. 83 “We may have been going to meetings for many years,…