Jan 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The memory contains PTSD elements of fear, threat to survival, and feeling alone, perhaps destitute.” BRB p. 180 Many of us experienced the trauma of being left alone for hours, having to feed ourselves and to do whatever else was necessary to survive. We ate what we…
Jan 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “This book will…truly move you from a place of reactor to actor in life. As said in many Twelve Step programs, “It works if you work it.” BRB p. xix As children, most of us learned to be reactive as a survival mechanism. If we didn’t “jump…
Jan 23 from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “When we look at the exact nature of our wrongs, we see that we have harmed ourselves based on our sense of being unacceptable, inferior, or lost.” BRB p. 198 For years we blamed ourselves for everything – what we did and what others did. To keep…
Jan 22 from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader Without knowing the meaning of the abandonment encoded within the past, the adult child is doomed to repeat it. The unexamined past becomes the future of the next generation.” BRB p.154 Many of us came from other Twelve Step programs, and our experiences with the Fourth Step…