April 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Judging ourselves harshly for mistakes is the Critical Parent.” BRB p.307 “The criticism we heard growing up, whether it was from our parents, teachers or others, even other children, became so internalized that we learned to let it define us. This wasn’t a conscious decision. It’s something…
April 3, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” BRB p.150 “When we do our Step Four inventory in the Yellow Workbook, we see that so many of our childhood experiences still seem like fresh wounds. Things that we may have talked about endlessly, even in…
April 2, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We start with the premise that we are whole and that we had a normal reaction to an abnormal situation of being raised in a dysfunctional home. Our normal reaction to protect ourselves has created survival traits, compulsions, and self-harming behaviors, which respond to the ACA Steps…
April 1, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader ”If we are diligent in working ACA Twelve Steps, miracles occur that we could not imagine.” BRB p. 156 As we began our Step work, we may still have found ourselves thinking about others much more than ourselves. We looked for places to plug in to get…