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- We will discover our real identities by loving and accepting ourselves.
- Our self-esteem will increase as we give ourselves approval on a daily
basis.
- Fear of authority figures and the need to "people-please" will
leave us.
- Our ability to share intimacy will grow inside us.
- As we face our abandonment issues, we will be attracted by strengths and
become more tolerant of weaknesses.
- We will enjoy feeling stable, peaceful, and financially secure.
- We will learn how to play and have fun in our lives.
- We will choose to love people who can love and be responsible
for themselves.
- Healthy boundaries and limits will become easier for us to set.
- Fears of failures and success will leave us, as we intuitively make healthier
choices.
- With help from our ACA support group, we will slowly release our dysfunctional
behaviors.
- Gradually, with our Higher Power's help, we learn to expect the best and
get it.
"We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will
not forget the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend
the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale
we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling
of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish
things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our
whole attitude and out-look upon life will change. Fear of people and of
economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle
situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is
doing for us what we could not do for ourselves".
from the Big Book of
Alcoholics Anonymous, pp 83-84
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