Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Anonymity represents to most people a liberating even more than a threatening phenomenon. — Harvey Cox
When we join a group for addicts, we make a promise to respect the confidentiality of each and every member. We call one another by our first names, and we don’t gossip about the social lives of our brothers and sisters in recovery.
Our groups act anonymously. We have no leaders, no spokespersons, no political affiliations. We meet and act on the basis of all for one and one for all.
When we talk in our groups, we can let go of our social identity and reveal the real human being beneath. Each of us is a unique person, but we share the sickness of addiction that goes beyond the individual and links us to one another in our common suffering. Even though we may not know one another on a social level, we understand and sympathize and love one another as women and men journeying together on the road to recovery. I come to know you and you come to know me in a way that few, if any, other people know us. Anonymity allows us to be intensely personal and yet secure and unafraid.
I am glad that I can let go in the anonymous haven of our group meetings.
Hazelden Foundation
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