Monday, January 4, 2021
Today's Gift
Nurturing Self Care
...there isn't a guidebook for setting boundaries. Each of us has our own guide inside ourselves. If we continue to work at recovery, our boundaries will develop. They will get healthy and sensitive. Our selves will tell us what we need to know, and we'll love ourselves enough to listen. —Beyond Codependency
What do we need to do to take care of ourselves?
Listen to that voice inside. What makes you angry? What have you had enough of? What don't you trust? What doesn't feel right? What can't you stand? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you want? Need? What don't you want and need? What do you like? What would feel good?
In life, we learn that self care leads us on the path to Higher Power's will and plan for our life. Self-care never leads away from our highest good; it leads toward it.
Learn to nurture that voice inside. We can trust ourselves. We can take care of ourselves. We are wiser than we think. Our guide is within, ever present. Listen to, trust, and nurture that guide.
Today, I will affirm that I am a gift to the Universe and myself. I will remember that nurturing self care delivers that gift in its highest form.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
The new is but the old come true; each sunrise sees a New Year born. ~Helen Hunt Jackson
We know that a totally new life can begin on any day of a year, at any hour of the day, or at any moment of an hour. Our new life began the moment we decided to surrender and admit to a powerlessness over a substance or an impulse. It began when we accepted the fact that we needed help and could receive it simply by asking.
Many of us used to choose New Year’s Day as a time for making good resolutions and swearing off bad habits. When we failed, we simply shrugged and said, “Maybe I can start tomorrow, next week—or next New Year’s Day.” We were always going to “turn over a new leaf.”
Now, in recovery, we no longer depend on doing it all alone. We know we can stay abstinent only by sharing with fellow members.
Action for the Day: Today I will remember, each day in recovery is another milestone. I no longer have to use a calendar.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source
of emotional stability to be our Higher Power Their self. We found that dependence
upon Their perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that
it would work where nothing else would. If we really depended upon
our Higher Power, we couldn’t very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel
the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 116
Thought to Ponder
Reliance on a Higher Power enables me to match calamity with serenity.
AA-related 'Alconym'
G I F T = Goodness Is Forever There
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Strong in your choices
by Ralph MarstonDo not give your priceless moments away for nothing. Focus your attention, your resources, your energy where they will lift up life and create real benefit.
Choose the goals that challenge you, do the work that’s difficult. Seek goodness and meaning over comfort and expedience.
What comes easily disappears quickly. What you obtain with no sacrifice or no effort cannot possibly provide any lasting value.
Align yourself with truth, with what’s good, with what’s right, even if it’s not popular or convenient. Truth eventually makes itself unavoidable, and when that happens you definitely want to already be on its side.
Every choice you make will either add to the quality and integrity of your life, or detract from it. That is a serious hazard, and an enormous opportunity.
Today, tomorrow, every time, choose what you know is right, what you know is best. Be strong in your choices, and bring new and valuable rewards to all of life.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Choose the goals that challenge you, do the work that’s difficult. Seek goodness and meaning over comfort and expedience.
What comes easily disappears quickly. What you obtain with no sacrifice or no effort cannot possibly provide any lasting value.
Align yourself with truth, with what’s good, with what’s right, even if it’s not popular or convenient. Truth eventually makes itself unavoidable, and when that happens you definitely want to already be on its side.
Every choice you make will either add to the quality and integrity of your life, or detract from it. That is a serious hazard, and an enormous opportunity.
Today, tomorrow, every time, choose what you know is right, what you know is best. Be strong in your choices, and bring new and valuable rewards to all of life.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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