Author: brian coates

ONE DAY AT A TIME

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Feb 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader We learn to restructure your sick thinking one day at a time.” BRB p.590 Recovery happens, sometimes whether we’re completely conscious of it or not. We just have to keep coming back and doing the work, “One day at a time.” It’s amazing when we find we’ve…

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PROGRESS

PROGRESS

Feb 22, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader To make progress we must want the ACA way of life and all that it has to offer.” BRB p. 33 Many of us faithfully go to our weekly meeting and feel we are working our program.  We recognize that ACA has helped us make positive changes…

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SOLUTION – GENTLENESS

SOLUTION – GENTLENESS

Feb 21, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn to reparent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love, and respect.” BRB p. 590 How do we reparent ourselves with gentleness if roughness or even cruelty was a staple of our childhoods? As we grew, we may not have felt capable of kindness toward ourselves because our…

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CHANGE

CHANGE

Feb 20, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader Change has been difficult in my life, but absolutely essential. “BRB p.410 “As children we clung to our dysfunctional families, praying that they wouldn’t abandon us because that, of all possible changes, would be devastating. As adults, we continued to cling to life as we knew it.…

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