Follow as I walk through recovery.
August 10, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our experience tells us that our past can be our greatest asset if we are willing to ask for help and do the work to find out what happened.” BRB p. 153 “We sometimes wonder how differently we could have turned out had we been raised without…
August 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “As ACA becomes a safe place for you, you will find freedom to express all the hurts and fears you have kept inside and to free yourself from the shame and blame that are carryovers from the past.” BRB p. 590 “The cycle of shame and blame…
August 8, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We confuse love and pity and tend to ‘love’ people we can ‘pity’ and ‘rescue.’” BRB p. 12 “In many aspects of our lives we are drawn to the familiar, not because it is good for us, but because it is more comfortable than change. The fact…
August 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The child feels he must perform or do well to earn a parent’s love.’” BRB p. 30 For many of us, we had to perform appropriately to get any feeling of love or acceptance as children. But conditional love was the only love, if any, that we…