Jan 28, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We learned to keep our feelings down as children and kept them buried as adults.” BRB p. 589 “How can we honor our feelings when many of us were brought up by parents who implied or directly told us that we shouldn’t talk about, think about, our…
Jan 27, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Before finding recovery, we suppressed our feelings and were overly responsible. We tried to anticipate the needs of others and meet those needs so we would not he abandoned.” BRB p. 94 Many of us have focused all our efforts on spouses, significant others, or children, trying…
Jan 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Sponsorship is the vehicle by which we take the road less traveled to a true connection with others and a God of our understanding.” BRB p. 368 Coming from a family of dysfunction, we developed a fear of authority. We learned early that our opinions, feelings, and…
Jan 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The memory contains PTSD elements of fear, threat to survival, and feeling alone, perhaps destitute.” BRB p. 180 Many of us experienced the trauma of being left alone for hours, having to feed ourselves and to do whatever else was necessary to survive. We ate what we…