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The best thing about recovery for me is the realizations that just keep coming. I am open to looking inside and finding out more about me. I am no longer terrified of the guilt. I can dig in and find that defect of character and I can face it, accept it and be willing to change it or replace it. Before Alanon these realizations about myself kept me locked into denial and kept me riding that old merrygoround but I have stepped off for the majority of the time, can't say im fully there yet but I am only human and i feel okay about that. I would love to hear from you about the best thing about your recovery.x
Guilt......hard to realize that we don't need to feel guilty. Our A's will be A's no matter what we have ever done. If my parents had quilt because of what they did to me....I didn't go out and proceed to destroy my life because they were bad parents. I learned to survive without a crutch. I made it and so can our A;s if they so choose.
We let go,pray and stay supportive so our A's will have some sort of chance to change.
I'm correcting my wrongs with support because I'm not alone and I can do this. I can change. And so can you my friend.
I'm here in support and pray you have that courage to move forward.
(((( hugs ))))
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Lord, put your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth
Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your silence.
. Before Alanon these realizations about myself kept me locked into denial and kept me riding that old merrygoround but I have stepped off for the majority of the time, can't say im fully there yet but I am only human and i feel okay about that. I would love to hear from you about the best thing about your recovery.x
Oh I can sooo relate...with me it was Denial, Defensive, Rationalizing my , I call them, "life survivor skills" made to cope in a bad situations.... Whatever ya call them, yea, I was ready to defend, rationalize, justify, you name it but NON acceptance was the rule...
Progress--not perfection...I will ride the merrygoround but I become aware a lot faster and I can jump off...Begin again......AMEN, el-cee
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Live and let live and do it with peace and goodwill to all!!!!
el-cee-I'm fairly new to devoting myself to a serious recovery plan, but during this past week, I felt happy and grounded for the first time in years, and not because of anything. I lost my center yesterday but I know I will feel better again in a day or two. So I am very excited to see that I can be happy, and eventually will have more good days than bad, Lyne
The best thing about my recovery is that I finally gave myself permission to be "human." This means that I could make mistakes,I could admit I was wrong, I could fortget to do things. The reason for that huge change was that I had new tools to help me deveop maturity, honesty and wisdom. I no longer needed to be perfect!!!!
