The only reason step one was hard for me is that I’m one stubborn son…. ~ Josh C Stubborn doesn’t fit with admitting powerlessness, unmanageability. Stubborn presents as obstinate, headstrong, perverse. Pigheaded. Used to protect treasured false personalities, to roadblock […]
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The Oxygen Mask Rule
I’m not doing it FOR someone else, really. But putting your own oxygen mask on first is key, as is helping someone else. ~ Maureen Gibbons I’m spent my life rescuing, fixing, seeing to. I’d always see to your needs […]
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A.A.’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole. ~ Twelve Steps and […]
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We mistake busyness for worthiness, perhaps. Let’s remember we are always worthy in God’s eyes. It’s the ego that labels us unworthy. ~ Karen Casey Like the lepers of old banned from society, forbidden to touch, required to proclaim “Unclean, […]
Continue reading »Feeling Feelings
I no longer need to be anesthetized; I can stand still and feel my feelings. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 137-138). Boredom requires no concoction featuring sugar, flour, nuts. Fear doesn’t need apple fritters to build up courage, seem confident. […]
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