Follow as I walk through recovery.
Nov 12, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The messages received during childhood can seem like an endless tape, the soundtrack of our often dramatic lifestyles. Underneath the ’scapegoat’ role one can hear the echoes of a caregiver who might have said, “You are a loser.” Beneath the ‘hero’ role, the equally disabling charge of…
Nov 11, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader What is this strange entity called serenity? How will we know if we have it? What will it feel like? Will we be different somehow? Is it something to strive for or is it an illusion? Maybe it’s easier to say what serenity isn’t. It isn’t waking…
Nov 10, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We are changing. We are beginning to see that we have choices.” BRB p. 578 “Many of us used to think that making important choices wasreserved for those who knew what they were doing, but that wasn’t us. We almostfainted at the prospect of trusting our own…
Nov 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Most of us agonize over mistakes because we internalize the error.” BRB p. 38 When we were kids, making a mistake meant being verbally and often physically abused. Our mistakes provoked over-the-top reactions from the adults around us who did not have the tools to understand that…