QOTW for August 21

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QOTW for August 21
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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 6:51am

Alcoholics Anonymous has many "promises," and one is that if we work at recovery, "Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change."


Whether or not you are in recovery, whether or not you are in AA or WFS or Smart or whatever, can you share one way you have


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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 7:18am

When I stopped drinking, I still had me to deal with. The attitude I had to change was my fear...which almost always came out as rage. I had to get some counselling, and use the steps to find out what inside me was making me so afraid. Oddly enough, the counselor, caught in her own paradigms,


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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 9:06am

Good one Beth.

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 9:20am

"I would magnify a hangnail into an amputation."


OH BRENDA, I have never seen a better example of projection!!!

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 9:54am

The day I finally realized and accepted that I didn't have to be perfect in order for people to love me, and that those who do love me love me as I am. This realization changed a lot of things in the way I functionned. Suddenly, I didn't have to be Super Pops anymore. Phew! I could take things day by day and not have to foresee everything for the next year. I learned to focus on the now, and that now is a good place to be.


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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 10:10am

I had to realize that I didn't have to be what other people wanted me to be. I still have that "needing to be perfect" bug once in a while.



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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 10:40am

I pray often during my day.

Works great!

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 10:55am
Prayer is a lifesaver in more ways than one.

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 12:33pm

Beth,


There is nothing more scary than facing my fears.


It is a work in progress....

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 12:47pm
Instead of worrying about what could be and what has been, I live in the moment and enjoy life.

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Mon, 08-21-2006 - 12:58pm

You are so right, not everything can be done right now. We have a saying...progress not perfection.


By the way, who do you know who has lupus?

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