Strengthening My Recovery

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On this day I will remember to be kind to myself and use our slogans, especially "First Things First," "Easy Does It," and "Keep It Simple.

Strengthening My Recovery – Daily Meditation - Adult Children

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Narcissism and self-love often get linked together, but these two concepts could not be more different. Doing service helps the meetings and your individual recovery since you gather valuable experience on your recovery journey.

While becoming our own Loving Parent is at the core of healing from a neglectful childhood, it is also the gateway to the child within. The Traditions offer wisdom on being self-supporting as a fellowship and on avoiding promotion when attracting new members. Hazelden Betty Ford's Thought for the Day offers daily meditations for people in recovery or affected by addiction to alcohol or other drugs.

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WSO would like to know the name of the station or entity they are sent to, the contact person’s full name, the address including street, city, state, country, and zip if applicable.We could take some quiet time to read and re-read the prayer slowly, allowing the meaning in each phrase to be revealed. Chapter 22, Reparenting as a Way of Life, concludes the book with an example of how to approach reparenting as a way of life. Since the disease of family dysfunction is generational, these traits also represent the internalization of our parents’ behavior. Without working our program, we can easily take the patterns and roles we learned at home and apply them in the workplace.

ACA Morning

As we continue to meditate and pray, making it an important part of our daily experience, our path is revealed. This group does the 7th tradition by having members make a donation into the Intergroup’s bank account. I found ACA Morning and soon it became part of my daily routine…my life is completely different, yet nothing has changed but me. The ACA (Adult Children of ALcoholics) is a Twelve-Step Program formed in 1978, to include the adult children of alcoholics, codependents, and addicts of various sorts--adults who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes and who exhibit identifiable traits that reveal past abuse or neglect. We risk taking our parental programming and our false attitudes about ourselves into our working life.

Other Laundry List trait 12 We “manage” the massive amount of deprivation we feel, coming from abandonment within the home, by quickly letting go of relationships that threaten our “independence” (not too close).

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We approach prayer and meditation in different ways … Some commune with nature and the outdoors; some say words like ‘serenity’ and ‘love’ to feel quiet within; some use affirmations to bring their higher power into their thoughts; some kneel in quiet repose; some sit and breathe deeply; and some use self-talk to connect with themselves and their higher power. This group is self supporting and relies fully on voluntary contributions from all of us to pay all the expenses. For us, relationships can be a measuring stick for how well we have applied the ACA program in our lives. However, Adult Children of Alcoholics is often the only program for many adult children recovering from the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, including the effects of alcoholism and drug addiction. Franciscan Richard Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in 1987 because he saw a deep need for the integration of both action and contemplation.

I” statements build my self respect while offering others a true opportunity to have a real relationship with me. In ACA we become willing to apply what we learn in the program to our daily lives and to relationships. No written material, graphic image, or any other data may be copied, reproduced, duplicated, or conveyed in any other way without the express written permission of International Service Organization of SAA, Inc.