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EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY

EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY

Jan 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Through meditation, we begin to visualize emotional sobriety.” BRB p. 265 Many of us had trouble learning the rules of punctuation when we were in grade school. We wrote sentences without commas, such as: “We ate the dog did not,” which sounded like we “ate the dog.”…

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ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS

ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS

Jan 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We stay in abusive relationships because they resemble how we were raised.” BRRp.197 “We’re going along and things seem to be working smoothly, and suddenly, “Bam!” The rug gets pulled out. We feel betrayed by the ones who supposedly love us the most. And we feel stupid…

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ACTING PURPOSEFULLY

ACTING PURPOSEFULLY

Jan 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We have seen adult children use the principles of the Twelve Steps to handle family illness, despair, and death with amazing serenity and faith.  “BRB p.291 The beauty of the Steps is that they guide us in our recovery from having grown up in a dysfunctional home,…

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FALSE SELF

FALSE SELF

Jan 4, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The mind developed the Laundry List Traits or the false self to survive.?  BRB p. xxvi Many of us were born into a hostile world. Instinctively, we learned to sense danger. We were caught in the family story and played our part doing what we had to…

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