Follow as I walk through recovery.
August 18, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “With willingness, we are well on our way to recovery.” BRBp.50 In the rooms of recovery, we learn to use the acronym HOW: Honest, Open-minded, and Willing. In ACA, we need to be all three. However, willingness may well be the key to doing the work it…
August 17, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn that real choice is God’s gift to us for letting go.” BRBp.155 As children, we may have felt trapped in an unhappy home life because we had no control over a parent’s drinking or other family dysfunction. We carry this feeling into adulthood, often feeling…
August 16, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The healing we receive by giving service in ACA removes our deep feelings of inferiority in giving and receiving love. Our sense of inadequacy begins to disappear when we see the value of the service we give.” BRBp.363 “In a myriad of ways most of us were…
August 15, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We will choose to love people who can love and be responsible for themselves.” BRB p. 591 “Prior to coming to ACA, we had been unconscious about a great many things. Perhaps the most painful was our unconscious choice of the people we thought we loved. As…