Dec 16, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “In Step Five, the ACA member trusts another to hear his or her life story without judgement. For many, this is the first time the adult child has told the most intimate details of his or her life to another. Trust of another person is one of…
Dec 15, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily readerP “Gradually, with our Higher Power’s help, we will learn to expect the best and get it.” BRB p. 591 “Our Higher Power is always ready to assist us in realizing our spiritual wholeness. If we take the time and effort to do the work, we will be…
Dec 14, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our experience shows that we often lived as victims.” BRB p. 14 “Many of us may have gotten very good at playing the victim. But we tell ourselves that we didn’t create that role for ourselves. Wasn’t it those other people and circumstances that made us a…
Dec 13, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Freedom from alcoholic insanity is a question of responsibility. We cannot be responsible for something we did not create.” BRB p.88 We thought of ourselves as something worthless at the center of the universe. We had tried to commit suicide in many ways, both emotionally and physically,…