April 20, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The critical inner voice is that part of us that judges others and ourselves harshly.” BRB p.337 “As children in dysfunctional homes, many of us took on difficult family responsibilities that should not have been our burdens to carry. We were then criticized for not doing things…
April 19, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “But before we can serve one another, we must first be willing to love and serve ourselves.” BRB p.354 “Many of us find such wonderful answers in ACA that we want to spread the word and help others before we understand what ACA is really about, and…
April 18, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us.” BRB p. 17 “Many of…
April 17, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “To ask an adult child to surrender control is like asking someone to leap from an airplane without a parachute. Without recovery, an adult child can live in terror of letting go of control.” BRB p. 39 “A counselor once said the reason adult children have such…