Follow as I walk through recovery.
Jan 27, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Before finding recovery, we suppressed our feelings and were overly responsible. We tried to anticipate the needs of others and meet those needs so we would not he abandoned.” BRB p. 94 Many of us have focused all our efforts on spouses, significant others, or children, trying…
Jan 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Sponsorship is the vehicle by which we take the road less traveled to a true connection with others and a God of our understanding.” BRB p. 368 Coming from a family of dysfunction, we developed a fear of authority. We learned early that our opinions, feelings, and…
Jan 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The memory contains PTSD elements of fear, threat to survival, and feeling alone, perhaps destitute.” BRB p. 180 Many of us experienced the trauma of being left alone for hours, having to feed ourselves and to do whatever else was necessary to survive. We ate what we…
Jan 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “This book will…truly move you from a place of reactor to actor in life. As said in many Twelve Step programs, “It works if you work it.” BRB p. xix As children, most of us learned to be reactive as a survival mechanism. If we didn’t “jump…