April 11, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Body shame is not reserved for our weight or shape.” BRB p. 441 As children, many of us were cruelly mocked by our families for how we looked. Fodder for jokes were our facial features, body parts, voice, hair, nails, ears, teeth, ethnicity and more. In order…
April 10, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Our experience reveals that there is value in emotional pain. With support, and with gentleness, we can find our healthy pain and its healing release, just as we reclaimed our tears.” BRB p.212 “Recovery brought us many new realizations. We came to understand that to protect ourselves…
April 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader ”Most ACA members have some form of PTSD, which is often expressed in our hypervigilance of our surroundings or our acute monitoring of comments or actions of others. This behavior is a carry-over from growing up on guard much of the time.” BRB p.160 “In recovery, many…
April 8, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Many of us have children who will possibly qualify for ACA one day due to transferring our disease of family dysfunction to them.” BRB p. 156 We remember wondering as we were growing up why life was so bad for us and not for other kids. We…