Nov 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Arriving at the bridge between denial and acceptance was painful. What were we to do now that the brutality of the past was revealed? What were we to do with the internal mess that we had been left with from childhood? What were we to do with…
Nov 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We felt as if we couldn’t do anything right because we couldn’t. No matter what our caretakers intended, their emotional daggers flew at us fast and furiously and stung deeply. Even long after leaving home, we carried that critical voice with us; only now it was internalized.…
What were my options? Beatings and soul crushing verbiage in one household, silence and emotional and physical abandonment in the other, or will it be the streets. With option number two I at least had the possibility of more contact with my family and friends. So I opted for that one. Thus, I continued on my journey…
Nov 24, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “An ACA ‘bottom’ may take various forms. We say to ourselves “I can’t stand being alone with myself,” or “I hate myself.” But if we analyze just these two statements, we can see they seem to speak of ‘I’ and ‘self’ as if they are two separate…