Category: Addiction
Daily Reflections April 25, 2012
LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES APRIL 25, 2012 Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us… We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or [...]
April 12, 2012 Daily Reflections
A WORD TO DROP: “BLAME” APRIL 12, 2012 To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating. Where [...]
Daily Reflections April 12, 2012
GROWING UP APRIL 12, 2012 The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115 Sometimes when I’ve become willing to do what I should have been doing all along, I want praise and recognition. I [...]
Daily Reflections April 11, 2012
A WORD TO DROP: “BLAME” APRIL 11, 2012 To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating. Where [...]
Daily Reflections April 06, 2012
TRUE BROTHERHOOD APRIL 6, 2012 We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it. This self-centered behavior blocked [...]
