Sharing and Caring

[MajestyJo]

A friend in a time of need, is a friend indeed as they say.

That is our disease. It tells us we don't have it. We are just "fine" and if you don't know what that means, the polite words are, "Fearful, insecure, neurotic and enjoying it!" There are varying versions, but it all means the same.

We are our own worst enemy and no one hurts us more than we hurt ourselves over the years. It is time to stop running, stop hurting, and let go of the past, a day at a time. We don't pretend it didn't happen, in fact in recovery, it is one of our biggest assets. Been there done it, don't have to go back there, but we can share with someone else what it was like, what happened and what it is like today.

I am not my actions when I was in active addiction. When I came into recovery, I didn't know who I was. One of the greatest gifts I was given were the words, "God doesn't make no junk!" I am not a bad person trying to get good; I am a sick person who is suffering from a disease over which she has no power over, who is trying to heal and get better.

Through the Grace of the God of my understanding, the Fellowship of the Spirit of several Twelve-Step Programs, I am healing one day at a time. I try not to look at how far I have to go, but how far I have come, and that I am a walking miracle, who hasn't drank or drugged for one day, I haven't used another person or place (my bed) to escape my own reality, and I have learned to live in today, one day at a time.

This was on my site The Spirit of Healing

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

--The Wicked Queen

"Ugly, ugly!" This is often what we think as we look in the mirror. There are days when we feel ugly no matter how we comb our hair or wear our clothes. There are days when we feel like mistakes dressing up as people.

Criticizing ourselves on the outside is usually caused by the way we feel inside. When we measure ourselves by our physical appearance, we will always feel let down. No one can always be the fairest of them all.

Slowly we are beginning to understand how our real glow comes from the inside. We are meeting people in recovery who aren't beauty contest winners on the outside but who shine because of their personalities and their positive energy.

Today let me accept myself as a lovely person, inside and out.