Follow as I walk through recovery.
Sept 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our group members celebrate our growth and recovery with us.” BRB p. 404 “Our critical inner parent can whisper to us all day long, repeating the messages we heard as children from our parents, teachers, and other authority figures from our formative years. Sometimes we may not…
Sept 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Many adult children find ACA and begin recovery. A few seem to do well only to act out in addictions such as drugs, alcohol, food, gambling or compulsive spending.” BRB p. 69 “When we started attending ACA meetings, we may have heard words that triggered pain and…
Sept 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn to reparent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love and respect.” BRB p. 590 “We may have grown up thinking that some people just knew how to love better than others. Perhaps we marveled at someone famous who seemed to have a deep, meaningful relationship with his…
Sept 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our search for our grief/loss can begin by asking this question? ‘What did I receive from my dysfunctional family and what would I have received from loving parents in the same situation?” BRB p. 204 “We grew up with expectations of normal, supportive behavior, but our expectations…