Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Loving ourselves
Our fellowship tells us to take care of ourselves first. It tells us that life and our Twelve Step program come before anyone or anything else. But what if we get too self-centered about this? Taking care of ourselves does not mean being selfish or maliciously hurting others to meet our own needs. What it means is that we learn to love and nurture ourselves, because we are important. We are truly closest to ourselves. If we don’t love ourselves, who will?
The famous psychologist Erich Fromm said that if people can love productively, then they can also love themselves; if they can love only others, then they cannot love at all. This means that, to be able to love others, we need the capacity to love and care for ourselves.
Am I learning to love myself?
Higher Power, help me to love myself so that I may better love you and others.
Today I will work on how I feel about myself by…
Hazelden Foundation
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