My disease is not special. It looks a lot like everybody else’s. What matters today is staying on my path. Life is going to feel intense for a while. That’s OK. I have my supports and I will work them. I can go to a meeting, make a call or do some uplifting reading. I
I am baffled and discouraged by this disease. The fallout seems endless. The pain recreates itself over and over and over again in one form or another. Recovery is the only cure, a new design for living, a daily commitment to change. So many seem to think that they can read a couple of good
Today, I will dream dreams. To work toward a dream can be a constructive use of my talents and energies. It can give me a positive focus. If my dreams are wild and I am not willing to do the work necessary to realize them, they will only frustrate me and lower my self-esteem. If,
Being in the presence of others who are in a balanced emotional state helps me to balance my emotional state, too. All mammals are wired to silently synchronize with each other to create group cohesion and balance or for that matter, group chaos and “mob psychology
My emotions are processed by my limbic system. My limbic system is in charge of regulating my mood, appetite, sleep cycles, libido and motivation. Emotional stress and psychological trauma can deregulate my limbic system. Because of all that it governs, deregulation of my limbic system can undermine my ability to balance and regulate my own
Today is the day that I will focus on. When I live in the future I can get anxious and overwhelmed with fears of future failures. When I live in the past I can become dogged by regret, resentment or sadness. But somehow when I stay in the present moment it all feels sort of
Surrendering is not the same thing as giving up. Today I surrender, I surrender my unrequited hopes and dreams into the care of my Higher Power trusting that a power greater than me can see things I cannot see. I surrender my regrets from the past so that I can stop obsessing about what I
Today the reason that I detach with love is in order to free myself. Detaching with anger doesn’t work, I remain preoccupied and live with a low level of distress. Detaching with the idea that eventually I’ll be able to come back and fix, control or change what I don’t like isn’t really letting go.
Today I will make the attitudes that I take toward life and relationships MY responsibility. No one can get into my head and do my thinking for me, no one can get into my heart and do my feeling for me, no one can crawl into my skin and behave for me. If I don’t