Friday, July 16, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Recovery is …spending more time building relationships than worrying about losing them. — Anonymous
Adult children routinely live in debilitating fear of what might happen in their relationships. We tend to spend so much time worrying about the calamity that may befall us, we find it impossible to enjoy what is there and put out the energy and time to create new, exciting connections.
Nothing is forever. Some relationships simply are not destined to be eternal. As we recover, we come to understand this truth. We grow to where our self-esteem and sense of self is not based on this relationship or that one but on our ability to move with the flow of life. Recovery is being open to the possibilities of what might be.
In accepting that I can’t control outcomes, I have much less fear of the future.
Hazelden Foundation
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