All I need to be today is who I am. Recovery is a process of facing and removing those obstacles that are in the way of my becoming more of me. It has been my willingness to risk and trust that my Higher Power will hold me that has brought me to life again, that
Today I am open. I understand that a spiritual awakening is my path to healing. My life looks different. I am learning to allow it to unfold a day at a time. I am becoming aware of the deeper experience of being alive. The morning and I meet and greet each other like old friends.
I can only live one day at a time. When I start to live in the future, I lose my energy, I live in my head. I get anxious, overwhelmed with fears of future failures. When I live in the past I can become dogged by regret, resentment or sadness; I obsess over what might
There are many life losses that I go through related to this disease that need grieving. There is the loss of time spent mired in disease rather than health and happiness. There is the loss of self respect, dignity and inner contentment that the disease of addiction engenders. There may the loss of my substance,
And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain." And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at
What goes on in our hearts affects our entire bodies. The heart's electromagnetic field far out-powers and out-ranges that of the brain or any other body system. Calming the heart calms the circulatory, nervous and respiratory systems, not to mention a host of others like the digestive and excretory tracts. If we’re calm in our
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. May God be with you and bless you: May you
Today I recognize that enmeshment isn’t closeness. Enmeshment is born out of fear of separation, not desire to be intimate. Intimacy requires that I allow you to be you and me to be me. It means that I am willing to learn how to hang onto a sense of self in your presence and allow
Denying this disease does not make it go away. I have watched this disease wrap its tentacles around three generations now. I have watched each generation pretend that it wasn’t all that bad, that it didn’t do all that much damage, that they didn’t really need help. But they did. I have seen my family