Monthly Archives: June 2017

Take Risks

June 09, 2017
Daily Meditations

Take a risk. Take a chance. We do not have to indulge in obviously foolhardy or self-defeating risks, but we can allow ourselves to take positive risks in recovery.…

Honesty

June 07, 2017
Article

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.—STEP FIVE OF AL-ANON Talking openly and honestly to another person about ourselves, in…

The Other Side of That Story

June 06, 2017
Article

I haven’t blogged for a while. (Is blog a noun or a verb?) I could write all the reasons why I’ve neglected my blog but I’ll resist.  Instead, I’ll tell you…

Property Lines

June 05, 2017
Daily Meditations

A helpful tool in our recovery, especially in the behavior we call detachment, is learning to identify who owns what. Then we let each person own and possess his…

Intimacy

June 03, 2017
Daily Meditations

We can let ourselves be close to people. Many of us have deeply ingrained patterns for sabotaging relationships. Some of us may instinctively terminate a relationship once it moves…