The following ideas have helped me.

-Back then, things looked good, but they were actually bad.

-I was so empty on the inside that the winds of life howled within  me.

-As the facts change, I change my mind.

-Instead of setting my own boundaries, I set other people’s boundaries in an effort to make my self feel safe.” If I do this they will [will not] accept me.”

-In this culture of materialism, individualism, prejudice, and judgmentalism, it seems possible to me that virtually the entire population needs recovery.

-When I make a growth step, it is important for me to communicate it, so that others can share my joy.

-Shame only involves my feelings. Guilt is not a feeling. It is my culpability.

-Shame has to do with who I am; guilt has to do with what I do.

-The saying “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is staggeringly in error.

-My co-dependence included helping my Higher Power out when it seemed to me She wasn’t getting things done I thought needed done.

-There is so very much to be enjoyed in today if I am not focused on yesterday and tomorrow.

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