May 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “ACA is for people who can make the connection between childhood neglect and an adult life of fear and loneliness.” BRB p.33 “Living in fear can be addictive. Healthier people can feel fear about things occasionally, but they deal with it constructively. But many of us can…
May 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Pushing down and holding back the history of a lifetime of injury and hurt from consciousness is painful, not metaphorically or psychically painful, but physically agonizing. It’s a matter of blood, tissue, nerves and bone.” BRB p. 623 “Our bodies ached. We woke in the night. We…
May 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility, and it is easier for us to be concerned with others rather than ourselves; this enables us not to look too closely at our own faults.” BRB p.14 “The tendency of most of us is to own every problem around…
May 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “This sharing of our story with our sponsor or informed counselor reveals destructive patterns in our adult lives while illuminating abuses from our childhood. We also begin to see our grief or stored loss lying beneath our decisions to wrong ourselves and others.” BRB p.1 10 Some…