Feb 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The principles of ACA are not about blame.” BRB p. xxiii “Some of us may have heard the saying that “a man without arms can’t hug you.” Our parents/caregivers were not able to give us what they did not have. The disease of alcoholism or other family…
It is funny, while on this journey of healing, the support that I get from my recovery community has been huge. There is an understanding and connection because of similar paths, similar damage, similar outcomes, and similar behaviors. But some of those that are closest to you stay silent or worse believe that how your…
Feb 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “If we overstate our wrongs and beat ourselves up, we tend to drift into an attitude of martyrdom, or we assume the victim posture. “BRB p.197 Without the leveling perspective of Step Five, many of us would either minimize our wrongs or overstate them. By choosing the…
Feb 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Being adult children, we have learned to endure colossal amounts of abuse and aloneness that only we understand.” BRB p.68 As adult children, we often forget that isolating is as natural to us as breathing. We may not even realize that we are doing it. Our first…