Daily ReflectionsAugust 20 TOWARD EMOTIONAL FREEDOM Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and […]
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Since September 5, 2015
August 19
Daily Reflections August 19 A FRAME OF REFERENCE Referring to our list [inventory] again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been […]
August 18
Daily Reflections August 18 GETTING WELL, p.239 Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness. -12 & 12, pp. 79-80 Only through positive action can I remove the remains […]
August 17
Daily ReflectionsAugust 17 RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. […]
August 16
Daily ReflectionsAugust 16 “I HAD DROPPED OUT” We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have “harmed” other people. What kinds of “harm” do people do one another, anyway? To […]
August 15
Daily ReflectionsAugust 15 DIDN’T WE HURT ANYBODY? Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS […]
August 14
Daily ReflectionsAugust 14 REDOUBLING OUR EFFORTS To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many […]
August 13
Daily ReflectionsAugust 13 A CLEAN SWEEP … and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with […]
August 12
Daily ReflectionsAugust 12 A LOOK BACKWARD First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; […]
August 11
Daily ReflectionsAugust 11 REMOVING “THE GROUND GLASS” The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. […]