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Feb 21, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learn to reparent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love, and respect.” BRB p. 590 How do we reparent ourselves with gentleness if roughness or even cruelty was a staple of our childhoods? As we grew, we may not have felt capable of kindness toward ourselves because our…
Feb 20, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader Change has been difficult in my life, but absolutely essential. “BRB p.410 “As children we clung to our dysfunctional families, praying that they wouldn’t abandon us because that, of all possible changes, would be devastating. As adults, we continued to cling to life as we knew it.…
Feb 19, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader ”Isolation is our retreat from the paralyzing pain of indecision. This retreat into denial blunts our awareness of the destructive reality of family alcoholism and is the first stage of mourning and grief.” BRB p. 82 “Isolation is a way of protecting ourselves from the grief of…
Feb 18, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “If the family withdraws support, this might feel new, but in reality the abandonment has always been there.” BRB p. 406 “On our journey in ACA, at some point we realized we were alone again. We had always felt this way, but never allowed ourselves to face…