Jan 12 from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.” BRBp.10 So many of us shut down and hide because of our fear of people and authority figures. Most of this fear stems from the way we were treated when we were young. Understandably, what we learned…
Jan 11 from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The dysfunction is encoded into our souls as the false self.” BRBp.105 “Many of us couldn’t be ourselves as children. In order to survive, we bought our parent’s negative messages, and then as adults, we repeated their dishonest justifications for crazy behavior. We remember our destructive false…
Jan 10, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We may be speaking program lingo, but we are not talking about what truly bothers us.” BRB p. 432 In the beginning, many of us found great comfort in the new language of recovery. It shielded us against the old way of thinking. But some of us…
Jan 9, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We also have great difficulty accepting mistakes as adults.” BRB p.38 Many adult children find themselves being overachievers and perfectionists. Many of us live in a white-knuckled what if? environment created by our own need to manage everything and everyone around us. We worry things won’t be…