Oct 28, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “By addressing our fear, we release some of our glaring behaviors of manipulation, passive-aggressiveness, and false kindness.” BRBp.40 “We grew up in homes where love was conditional. How we were treated depended on how we acted. Many of us were so fearful of being punished or ostracized…
Oct 27, 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 “We held…
Oct 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Many adult children struggle with self-forgiveness because we are oriented to doubt ourselves or to be hypercritical of ourselves as children.” BRB p. 234 “We carry messages in our heads that if we do something and anyone has a negative reaction, we must have made a mistake.…
Oct 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our attempts at control bring spiritual death to a relationship with ourselves and others.” BRB p. 41 “How many forms of control are there? On entering the rooms of recovery, we find there are almost as many as there are people. But don’t all people attempt to…