Follow as I walk through recovery.
July 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “People want recovery, but they prefer it be pain free. That is understandable, but unfortunately, identifying and feeling our feelings is a part of healing.” BRB Introduction p. xxiii “Feelings? What are those?!” As children from dysfunctional homes, if we cried, many of us were told, “Stop…
July 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Children of alcoholics are paralyzed by indecision when trying to separate emotionally from their homes.” BRB p. 87 “When we started telling our story in ACA, we may have felt like we were betraying everything we had ever known, and we were – but that was okay. …
July 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Genuine grieving for our childhood ends our morbid fascination with the past and lets us return to the present, free to live as adults. Confronting years of pain and loss at first seems overwhelming.” BRB p. 83 “We may have been going to meetings for many years,…
July 22, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The miraculous combination of therapy and working the twelve Steps set me free from the prison of my childhood playpen to explore and experience my real and unique self.” BRB p. 55 “When we first came to ACA, some of us found it confusing and disorienting, but…