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Daily Reading – October 10, 2011
Sometimes I need to work stat one backwards. I don’t always recognize when I’m powerless, but I certainly noticed when my life becomes unmanageable. Then I remembered that usually when I’m feeling...
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Daily Reading – October 12, 2012
The road to my hometown wound along a steep hillside. As a child, I was often afraid that our car would swerve too widely and go over the edge. I used to take hold of the rear door handle and
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Daily Reading – October 18, 2012
When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing. —Catherine Ponder We are in constant communication with one another and, in the...
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Daily Reading – February 9, 2013 – Enabling Door Mats…
Letting Go in Love: February 9 When people with a compulsive disorder do whatever it is they are compelled to do, they are not saying they don’t love you—they are saying they don’t love themselves....
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Daily Reading – February 10, 2013 – Dysfunction Does Not Desire Change
The roles I played for a long time in my family were those of caretaker and fixer. I was the nurturing mother my mom never had. It was my responsibility to care for her emotionally and often...
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Daily Reading – February 13, 2013 – Letting Go of Those Not In Recovery
Letting Go of Those Not in Recovery: February 12 We can go forward with our life and recoveries, even though someone we love is not yet recovering. Picture a bridge. On one side of the bridge it is...
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Daily Reading – March 19, 2013 – Fix your thoughts on what is…
My father died of alcoholism when I was in my 20′s. I knew others who had lost parents to more respectable diseases, and their grief was evident. Where was mine? Instead I felt relief, pity, a vague...
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Daily Reading – May 29, 2013 – It always seems to be about balance…
It isn’t easy to grasp the Al-Anon idea of detachment. We are told to detach from the problem, but not from the suffering alcoholic. Yet when one disaster after another overtakes us, it is hard to...
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Daily Reading – February 16, 2014
Alcoholism is a disease-we hear this statement over and over again. It is so hard for most of us to accept because we cannot associate it with germs or viruses, as in other “respectable” diseases....
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Daily Reading – March 24, 2014
Love has a hundred gentle ends. -Leonora Speyer Letting go is a process that is seldom easy. For many, its meaning is elusive. How do we “let go”? Letting go means removing our attention from a...
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