Make a promise to yourself that you are not going to quit… When you make a promise you have to keep it. ~ Rev. Felicia Hopkins We come into the rooms of recovery having failed for years and years, having […]
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Container for Healing Work
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. Have you closer friends than the ones you’ve […]
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It’s easier to make any new, positive behavior or way of thinking habitual when you surround yourself with role models who do likewise. But even when we sit among the naysayers, we don’t have to give our minds to the […]
Continue reading »Look Back and Forward Without Staring
Ours is a program of one day at a time. We remember yesterday. being powerless unable to manage our lives. But we don’t stare at the past even while sharing how it was. We know tomorrow will come, we note […]
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Heard at a meeting: This program has given me some compassion for myself. ~ Miranda It’s a good day to be a work in progress. ~ JT Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. We’re taught […]
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