Follow as I walk through recovery.
Dec 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We realize that we are practicing the concept of self-forgiveness when we hear ourselves talking about being gentle with ourselves.” BRB p. 113 “Being gentle with ourselves is not second nature to us. Few of us had good role models in that respect. As a result, we…
Dec 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader We can find serenity in ACA BRB p. 442 We may not have experienced what we think of as serenity – we see it as something other people have, not us. We may not even know what serenity is, let alone where to look for it. What…
Dec 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “This is a description, not an indictment.” BRB p. 589 Even though it says in The Problem that it’s not an indictment, it may still feel that way at first. Many of us felt locked forever in continually repeated patterns of family dysfunction. But in spite of…
Dec 23, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We cannot forgive another until we forgive ourselves. BRB p.233 As children, we learned to be critical of ourselves and to see ourselves as never being good enough. This was told to us so many times and in so many ways by the adults in our lives…