There are always ways to put suffering to good use. Suffering is never wasted, but there is a loss. There’s a loss of what we could have been, could have accomplished, could have experienced, could have seen, if we hadn’t […]
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Concern for Self
I ask a lot of people who come into the program, selfish, self-centered, and messed up with these character defects, “How concerned have you been for your own life for the last couple of years?” We need to learn the […]
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A friend of mine once said “People call Step Ten the permanence but I prefer to think of it as the Growth Step. I’d rather be green and growing than to be ripe and rotting!” ~ Wanda S. Step Ten: […]
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Being passive and feeling inferior go hand-in-hand, and they prepare us for becoming dependent on alcohol, pills, food, and people. ~ Casey, Karen. Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women (Kindle Locations 2164-2165). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. What happened […]
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