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Jan 11 from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The dysfunction is encoded into our souls as the false self.” BRBp.105 “Many of us couldn’t be ourselves as children. In order to survive, we bought our parent’s negative messages, and then as adults, we repeated their dishonest justifications for crazy behavior. We remember our destructive false…
Jan 10, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We may be speaking program lingo, but we are not talking about what truly bothers us.” BRB p. 432 In the beginning, many of us found great comfort in the new language of recovery. It shielded us against the old way of thinking. But some of us…
Jan 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We also have great difficulty accepting mistakes as adults.” BRB p.38 Many adult children find themselves being overachievers and perfectionists. Many of us live in a white-knuckled what if? environment created by our own need to manage everything and everyone around us. We worry things won’t be…
Jan 8, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader We often cannot avoid triggers, but we can change the way we deal with them.” BRB p. 253 “They really know how to push my buttons!” How often have we said this to ourselves or heard others say it? The buttons are the repressed memories or resentments…