Tag: emotional sobriety
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Extrapolation vs. Just For Today
Do you ever do what I do? Old timers tell us when we’re new, “Wait for the miracles.” And sooner or later, if we keep coming back, they start to happen. A difficult relationship starts to improve. We make it through a crazy blowup or a stressful holiday with our serenity intact. An Al-Anon tool…
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Not knowing is progress
A friend new to program recently told me, “You know what I just realized? I don’t know s#it about f@ck.” Me either. My whole recovery has been a long process of figuring out that I don’t know s#it about f@ck. Or rather, figuring out that a lot of stuff I thought I knew “just ain’t…
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Expectations vs Recovery
Most of us have heard in program that “expectations are premeditated resentments.” And it’s true. Oh, boy, is it true. When I did my resentments inventory, the word should popped up again and again. (Always regarding others’ actions, of course!) Over and over, the God of my understanding led me to see that I needed…
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What’s In A Name?
Just in case you were wondering… What does an Al-Anon recovery journal have to do with dinosaurs? Absolutely nothing. So why is it called Recoverysaurus? There’s no deep, compelling backstory here. I just liked it. Adding ‘-saurus‘ to anything makes it sound infinitely cooler, if you’re five years old. Also, well, a little silly. That…
