110518 I went to a funeral today of an acquaintance, who was younger than me, that I haven’t seen in many years. He was one of those guys that you believed if you saw today he would sit and have a meal with and you could talk and laugh about old times. His celebration of…
Nov 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Most of us agonize over mistakes because we internalize the error.” BRB p. 38 When we were kids, making a mistake meant being verbally and often physically abused. Our mistakes provoked over-the-top reactions from the adults around us who did not have the tools to understand that…
Nov 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “By now, we have stopped punishing ourselves. We are asking God, as we understand God, to help us become entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.” BRB p. 215 We used to beat ourselves up over things that we couldn’t control. To help cope, many…
Nov 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “An adult child is someone who responds to adult situations with self-doubt, self-blame, or a sense of being wrong or inferior – all learned from stages of childhood.” BRB p. vii, footnote We may have grown up with parents who used anger and conditional love to control…