Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families

Many of us used to think that making important choices was reserved for those who knew what they were doing, but that wasn’t us. We almost fainted at the prospect of trusting our own intuition about what direction we should take in life. We felt we needed the help of others who were obviously more qualified. We had no faith in our ability to be ind

As adults, we found relationships where we could continue to do what we did best: wait. We waited in fear for the addict, for the abuse, for anything to go wrong.

A Higher Power provides food for all the birds on earth but doesn’t put it in their mouths.

But all the knowledge we may gain from reading will only be as good as the effort we make to use that information in our recovery process.

On this day, with my Higher Power’s help, I will focus on myself to find the solution that will keep me from repeating my past patterns.

In a myriad of ways most of us were taught that we were inferior. Our perceptions were challenged. Our feelings were denied. Our thoughts were overpowered by the dysfunction in our families.

ACA literature told us things about ourselves we didn’t know.

We had no role models for healthy give and take.

Today, we nurture ourselves by deciding what we want the universe to send us, because we’re open to the possibility that we can have those things. We allow ourselves to swim around in the scent of promise. We deserve it. We realize that wanting something is not bad; it’s a healthy part of being human. We allow our minds and hearts to wander because