It’s Time to Give This Blog a Name

Better late than never. My apologies on being so late putting up the poll for naming this blog, but it’s finally time. Cast your vote in the poll to the right and help name our blog. What better way to capture the spirit of the 12 steps and traditions than allowing the readers to name the blog. Our readers suggested blog titles. You cast your vote, and the the winning entry will receive a $100 gift certificate to Recovery Superstore. Good luck to everyone and thanks for your suggestions.

The voting will last for two weeks. Please only one vote per person.

Attainable Affirmations: Blessings

The Irish love blessings. My bit of Irish heritage causes me to love them too. What is a blessing? A blessing is a wish or desire for good fortune for another. Today let’s send good wishes to our loved ones.

An Irish blessing: May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you do, and may God send many blessings to you!

I bless my friends and family with love and acceptance.

Today’s Meditation from:

Food Addiction: Healing Day by Day by Kay Sheppard.

The Lie of Addiction

The biggest liar was my own addiction. — Joanie R.

We have lived with dishonesty–in others and in ourselves. Many of us had to learn to cope with the obvious lies accompanying our parents’ dysfunction or the enabling of that dysfunction. One of the ways we coped was to convince ourselves that our perceptions were false. A low self-image and our own eventual dishonesty caused us pain, and some of us found momentary relief in addictions or other compulsive behaviors.

But addictions also lie. All of them–no matter to what substance or behavior–speak to us softly and seductively: “Try me, I will take away the disappointment, the loneliness, the rejection, the pain. I will heal you.” The lie, of course, is that addictions help anything because even after a binge, the pain is there. And it is often worse.

Switching addictions is no good either. Switching to work, sex, food, money, religion is not a way out. Freedom from all addictions is found in truth. And the truth is we need to face our realities without addictions.

Today, I will examine my life for switched addictions. I will ask my Higher Power to help me stay on course.

Today’s Meditation from:

Days of Healing - Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty