Oct 21, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader ”Rebuilding, or building, our lives takes time. It takes patience and steady focus.” BRB p. 431 “Many of us never knew what focus or patience really looked like until we came to ACA. We had spent our lives moving frantically from one thing to another. As we…
Oct 20, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Adult children intuitively link up with other adult children in relationships and social settings.” BRB p.13 “No matter how much we told ourselves that we wouldn’t repeat the patterns of our parents, most of us reached adulthood and found ourselves inevitably attracted to others who came from…
Oct 19, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Recovery takes effort.” BRBp.50 A Higher Power provides food for all the birds on earth but doesn’t put it in their mouths. “It would be nice to just sit in the rooms of recovery and let the program sink in by osmosis without having to work at…
Oct 18, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “With the Steps and by reparenting ourselves, we can further remove the ‘buttons’ that have been pushed by others to manipulate us or to get a reaction out of us.” BRB p.326 “As children, others manipulated us at will. Sometimes it seemed we were born to be…