Jan 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We also have great difficulty accepting mistakes as adults.” BRB p.38 Many adult children find themselves being overachievers and perfectionists. Many of us live in a white-knuckled what if? environment created by our own need to manage everything and everyone around us. We worry things won’t be…
Jan 8, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader We often cannot avoid triggers, but we can change the way we deal with them.” BRB p. 253 “They really know how to push my buttons!” How often have we said this to ourselves or heard others say it? The buttons are the repressed memories or resentments…
Jan 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Through meditation, we begin to visualize emotional sobriety.” BRB p. 265 Many of us had trouble learning the rules of punctuation when we were in grade school. We wrote sentences without commas, such as: “We ate the dog did not,” which sounded like we “ate the dog.”…
Jan 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We stay in abusive relationships because they resemble how we were raised.” BRRp.197 “We’re going along and things seem to be working smoothly, and suddenly, “Bam!” The rug gets pulled out. We feel betrayed by the ones who supposedly love us the most. And we feel stupid…