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RECOVERING VICTIM

RECOVERING VICTIM

Feb 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “If we overstate our wrongs and beat ourselves up, we tend to drift into an attitude of martyrdom, or we assume the victim posture.  “BRB p.197 Without the leveling perspective of Step Five, many of us would either minimize our wrongs or overstate them. By choosing the…

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ISOLATING

ISOLATING

Feb 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Being adult children, we have learned to endure colossal amounts of abuse and aloneness that only we understand.” BRB p.68 As adult children, we often forget that isolating is as natural to us as breathing. We may not even realize that we are doing it. Our first…

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ONE DAY AT A TIME

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Feb 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader We learn to restructure your sick thinking one day at a time.” BRB p.590 Recovery happens, sometimes whether we’re completely conscious of it or not. We just have to keep coming back and doing the work, “One day at a time.” It’s amazing when we find we’ve…

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PROGRESS

PROGRESS

Feb 22, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader To make progress we must want the ACA way of life and all that it has to offer.” BRB p. 33 Many of us faithfully go to our weekly meeting and feel we are working our program.  We recognize that ACA has helped us make positive changes…

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