Post by caressa on Feb 5, 2010 6:32:56 GMT -5
This reading is for men, and yet I identify a lot perhaps it is my masculine side looking for balance.
Our masculine side is our survivor side. I didn't know I could set boundaries and even expect them to be respected and adhered to. I didn't know I could reset them when they got trampled on.
My recovery is about me. There is no right way or wrong way to work my program. It is doing what is good for me and when the time is right. I don't have to be pushed into something that I am not ready for. I came, I came to, and I came to believe that the program will work for me. Until I can take those steps honestly, I am not ready to move forward. Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness are the keys to recovery and without them, I can not able to work the rest of the Steps to the best of my ability, to bring about the change in attituded necessary to aid recovery.
I found that when I had doubt, I was continually looking for that way out, that excuse, and go back into the blame and shame game because it was easier to look at what you did than what I did.
When people step over my boundaries and get into my 'face' I allow them control and give up my power to them.
www.hazelden.org/web/public/thought.view?catId=1902
Our masculine side is our survivor side. I didn't know I could set boundaries and even expect them to be respected and adhered to. I didn't know I could reset them when they got trampled on.
My recovery is about me. There is no right way or wrong way to work my program. It is doing what is good for me and when the time is right. I don't have to be pushed into something that I am not ready for. I came, I came to, and I came to believe that the program will work for me. Until I can take those steps honestly, I am not ready to move forward. Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness are the keys to recovery and without them, I can not able to work the rest of the Steps to the best of my ability, to bring about the change in attituded necessary to aid recovery.
I found that when I had doubt, I was continually looking for that way out, that excuse, and go back into the blame and shame game because it was easier to look at what you did than what I did.
When people step over my boundaries and get into my 'face' I allow them control and give up my power to them.
www.hazelden.org/web/public/thought.view?catId=1902
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.