I come back to meetings even when you hurt my feelings., cause when you hurt my feelings that’s usually when I grow. ~ DKP There are comfortable meetings. Then there are those intended for you! It seems like everything anybody […]
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The Container
The relationships we create during recovery are the container in which we do our healing work. ~ Covington, Stephanie S. A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps (p. 203). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. A synonym of container is repository, a central […]
Continue reading »A Game of Boomerangs
One receives only that which is given. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words, return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. ~ Florence Scovel Shin as quoted by Casey, Karen. Each Day […]
Continue reading »Identify, Don’t Compare
They said I needed to identify, not compare. I didn’t know what they meant. What was the difference? Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking […]
Continue reading »Don’t Look at Me!!!
Fear that people would know the real me kept me from divulging the real me. Why risk rejection? The irony is that, in wanting to avoid rejection, I isolated myself, which put me in the same solitary, lonely position that […]
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