CRBoyntonBeach

11/16/2021

Announcing grief support at our weekly meetings

05/06/2021

Counting down the days!

04/08/2021

03/07/2021

March 7 (ACA)
The truth shall set you free but first it will make you miserable.
- Garfield

A young woman at a meeting said something that is often heard from newly recovering people: "Recovery created more problems than I had before". The more likely reality, of course, for her and for all of us when we're just starting out, is not that there are so many new problems, but that we are now able to see old problems that we never before saw.

Recovery creates insight - and with insight comes heightened awareness of the need for decisions. Those decisions can hurt. They can call from us the very strengths and skills we have the least of and fear the most.

Before recovery we didn't have to make decisions because we didn't face our problems. After recovery begins, sure, there will be some painful decisions - but all the pain is growing pain.

I can look for ways to deal with my problems, rather than ways to avoid them.
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From: Days of Healing, Days of Joy; Daily meditations for adult children

03/06/2021

If you don’t know what the black balloon represents you are a very fortunate soul.
Overdose is the number 1 cause of accidental deaths in the United States. This is devastating to me. Knowing that approximately every 8 minutes another life has ended too soon.
I don’t ask for you to understand substance use disorders, what I would love to see is that we start learning to love and support people regardless of their struggles
I can’t count the HUMAN BEINGS that I knew & loved that are not here today, their life had purpose, their families loved them and often times we are left to mourn them in silence because of the STIGMA attached to mental illness & substance use disorder 💔 Every life matters! No one wants to become consumed by a drug that takes complete control over their life where all you can think about where is my next
high going to come from!!
Today my heart hurts for my friends and families left behind that have many unanswered questions, that mourn their children’s lives cut short, that lost a mother or father that don’t get to see their grandchildren and the siblings left behind that don’t get to hear their voice...... EVER AGAIN !

IF YOU CANT HELP SOMEONE, please don’t hurt them 💜


Copied from a FB post and shared here so we will continue to pray for and support those who struggle.

03/02/2021

Letting Go of Denial

We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt our feelings. —Ovid

Most of us in recovery have engaged in denial from time to time. Some of us relied on this tool.

We may have denied events or feelings from our past. We may have denied other people's problems; we may have denied our own problems, feelings, thoughts, wants, or needs. We denied the truth.

Denial means we didn't let ourselves face reality, usually because facing that particular reality would hurt. It would be a loss of something: trust, love, family, perhaps a marriage, a friendship, or a dream. And it hurts to lose something or someone.

Denial is a protective device, a shock absorber for the soul. It prevents us from acknowledging reality until we feel prepared to cope with that particular reality. People can shout and scream the truth at us, but we will not see or hear it until we are ready.

We are sturdy yet fragile beings. Sometimes, we need time to get prepared, time to ready ourselves to cope. We do not let go of our need to deny by beating ourselves into acceptance; we let go of our need to deny by allowing ourselves to become safe and strong enough to cope with the truth.

We will do this, when the time is right. We do not need to punish ourselves for having denied reality; we need only love ourselves into safety and strength so that each day we are better equipped to face and deal with the truth. We will face and deal with reality - on our own time schedule, when we are ready, and in our Higher Power's timing. We do not have to accept chastisement from anyone, including ourselves, for this schedule.

We will know what we need to know, when it's time to know it.

Today, I will concentrate on making myself feel safe and confident. I will let myself have my awarenesses on my own time schedule.