May 17, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We realize that life today really is different than when we were children without a voice.” BRB p. 73 “The authority figures we grew up with were scary. They got angry when anyone questioned or challenged them. There didn’t seem to be any logic to it, so…
May 16, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Because we shut out our parents when we were children, we tend to shut out people as adults.” BRB p. 187 Surviving childhood in a dysfunctional household required many of us to use a number of coping mechanisms to maintain any semblance of sanity. One was our…
May 15, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “As we face our abandonment issues, we will be attracted by strengths and become more tolerant of weaknesses.” BRB p. 591 Being left without a means of finding our way back is the essence of our abandonment. As a child in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family, we…
May 14, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Recovery is not about perfection. It is in the becoming that we experience the promises of recovery.” BRB p. xxiv “Some of us thought we had to figure out how to work the ACA program perfectly. We grew up in homes where that was the norm, and…