Follow as I walk through recovery.
Dec 14, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our experience shows that we often lived as victims.” BRB p. 14 “Many of us may have gotten very good at playing the victim. But we tell ourselves that we didn’t create that role for ourselves. Wasn’t it those other people and circumstances that made us a…
Dec 13, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Freedom from alcoholic insanity is a question of responsibility. We cannot be responsible for something we did not create.” BRB p.88 We thought of ourselves as something worthless at the center of the universe. We had tried to commit suicide in many ways, both emotionally and physically,…
Dec 12, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “I give it away to keep it – recovery.” BRB p. 513 When we come to ACA, we are hurting. We find others like ourselves. Because we learn to trust these people, we gradually allow ourselves to open up and share our deepest secrets. But in some…
Dec 11, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Having an overdeveloped sense of responsibility, we preferred to be concerned with others rather than ourselves.” BRB p. 589 When we arrived at ACA, many of us realized we had a pattern of putting all others before ourselves. It seemed that their lives were more important than ours,…