Jan 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We have seen adult children use the principles of the Twelve Steps to handle family illness, despair, and death with amazing serenity and faith. “BRB p.291 The beauty of the Steps is that they guide us in our recovery from having grown up in a dysfunctional home,…
Jan 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The mind developed the Laundry List Traits or the false self to survive.? BRB p. xxvi Many of us were born into a hostile world. Instinctively, we learned to sense danger. We were caught in the family story and played our part doing what we had to…
Jan 3, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable.” BRB p.118 In ACA we learn to think of this word in a new light. When we hang around meetings long enough to listen, we find that…
Jan 2, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The first time I read the common behaviors of an adult child, I felt like a bell that had been fetched up and rung hard. I was calm on the outside, but I was vibrating on the inside. “BRB p. 118 When we first heard “our” story…