Don’t take a hostage you’re not willing to shoot. ~ Mike Conaway Resentments hold two people captive — the one holding it as the prison guard of the one resented, and both are just as bound. What do you do to […]
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Freedom of (from?) Bad Choices
Looking back, we see that our freedom to choose badly was not, after all, a very real freedom. ~ Bill W. I have the right to eat trash, to ignore medical advice, to put chemicals and poisons in me, to disobey […]
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Nowhere in Steps Four through Seven do we ask God to add anything, but rather to take away the things we do not need. ~ Courage to Change, page 65. I have it all, everything I need. Actually more, truth be told. […]
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Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ~ Steve Jobs It’s […]
Continue reading »Pleasing Who?
“If you’re doing it to please him, you’re back in your disease.” ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 785). My name is Barbara, and I’m a people pleaser. I want you to like me, respect me, admire me, think I’m darned […]
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