May 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Family dysfunction is a disease that affects everyone in the family. Taking a drink is not necessary to be affected. This is an ACA axiom, and it serves as a basis for our First Step.” BRB p.22 “Whether we are teetotalers or “self-made” alcoholics, our perfectionist and…
May 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily readerS “One of the keys to being restored to sanity involves surrendering our need to harm ourselves or to run from our feelings.” BRBp.137 “It is not sane to have a battle with ourselves to keep feelings from surfacing. By running from our emotions, we lose out on…
May 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily readerS “We learn to reparent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love and respect.” BRB p. 590 “The great advantage of teaching our Inner Child to look at life with as much good humor as possible is that it relieves tension. Think for a moment about the last time we…
May 3, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily readerS “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” BRB p.190 “In Step Five, for the first time we came clean about our real feelings and walked away from it more whole than before. We were not perfect and that…