Nov 8, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “The pathway to emotional sobriety that endures time is through the Twelve Steps of ACA.” BRB p. 91 “The ACA program, if worked consistently and honestly, gives us a new route to emotional sobriety. We were unable to find this growing up with the dysfunctional people in…
Nov 7, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “By now, we have stopped punishing ourselves. We are asking God, as we understand God, to help us become entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.” BRB p. 215 We used to beat ourselves up over things that we couldn’t control. To help cope, many…
Nov 6, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “An adult child is someone who responds to adult situations with self-doubt, self-blame, or a sense of being wrong or inferior – all learned from stages of childhood.” BRB p. vii, footnote We may have grown up with parents who used anger and conditional love to control…
Nov 5, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “HALT is an acronym that is well known in many Twelve Step programs. It stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired. When we feel out of balance, it’s often that one or more of these things are in play. When we become aware of what’s going on,…