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| Overcoming rejection is vital to your recovery. Feeling rejected feels like tiring away at the kitchen over a meal, and not receiving the positive response you were looking for. You feel disappointed, let down, and wonder what you did wrong. You followed the recipe according to the book– what went wrong? It is essential for us to feel needed and accepted. To know that people care about us the way we care about them. To feel that we belong to a group of people. Our hearts and minds yearn for connection, especially when we are looking to fill a void, such as love, a purpose, or companionship. Now, this connection can’t be made with just anyone or any group of people—it must be made with someone we also value and and believe to be valuable. Someone we believe can and will comfort us. Someone or something than we know will satisfy our yearning for the void in our lives. |
| STEP FOUR: “We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Para 1. 1. What is the purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory? 2. What do we need to do in starting our new way of life? Para 2. 1. What are most of us afraid will happen when we do Step Four? 2. What does this fear cause to happen? 3. What is fear and why do we no longer need to be afraid? Para 3. 1. What have we been experts at? 2. Why is a written inventory important? 3. What is the key to our new way of life? Para 4. 1. When we were using were we honest with ourselves? 2. What two admissions show that we were becoming honest with ourselves? 3. What three areas is it that we do not recover overnight? 4. What significances will Step Four have in your life? Para 5. 1. What is the mistake some of us make when approaching the Fourth Step. 2. A dangerous emotional binge of sorrow is not the purpose of the Fourth Step. What is? Para 6. 1. What is the necessary preparation to have the faith and courage to write a fearless inventory? 2. What is advisable that we do with our sponsor? Why? 3. Then what do we do? Para 7. 1. What do we want to do with the past? Why? 2. What are we afraid of? 3. Do we have to look at the past alone? Para 8. 1. As long as we were operating under our power, what was impossible? 2. What do we need to do before we start writing? Para 9. We begin to get in touch with ourselves by writing about our liabilities such as what? 26 Para 10. When we wrote about things that bother us here and now what does putting them down on paper do? Para 11. 1. If we are to get an accurate and complete picture of ourselves what must be considered? 2. Why is it very difficult for most of us to list our assets? 3. What are some of our newly found assets in the program? 4. What else is included in inventories? |
| Today has been a day and not really a good one i am struggling with me today very much so but God....... it's almost over thank you Jesus. |
| Sanity "One of the keys to being restored to sanity involves surrendering our need to harm ourselves or to run from our feelings." BRB p. 137 It is not sane to have a battle within ourselves to keep feelings from surfacing. By running from our emotions, we lose out on the valuable lessons they may teach us. When we deny or stuff feelings, they continue to hide just under the surface. They become jumbled and confusing and tend to come out with the slightest trigger. When feelings are experienced rather than denied, they lose their power. By learning to sit with our feelings and acknowledge them, we practice self-love. As we start to love ourselves more, we will want to harm ourselves less and begin to treat ourselves with genuine kindness and compassion. But we don't just stop the behavior of self-harm all at once. Part of the process is to surrender this need to our Higher Power, knowing that we will be shown how to love ourselves. Whether quickly or slowly, we come to have faith in the Promises of ACA. On this day I will nurture myself by accepting my feelings as they arise, knowing they hold opportunities for me to grow and love myself more fully. Copyright © 2013 by Adult Children of Alcoholics® & Dysfunctional Families World Service Organization, Inc. Page Number 131 May 05 | May 04 | May 03 | May 02 | May 01 | April 30 | April 29 Do you like the daily meditation ? You can get the hard copy book, soft copy book, or e-book version. Signup to receive the daily meditation in your email. |
| Today was a day again however not as bad as yesterday but God..... stay tuned it ain't over till it's over and I think and believe it will be a happy ever after at the end,possibly the very end,however long as I get mines. |
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