Daily Meditation

"We have ‘stuffed' our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings because it hurts so much (Denial)." BRB p. 17

If we came to ACA from another program and were familiar with Step work, we may have felt we had covered all of this ground before. We knew how to speak "program talk," and our lives were already better, right? So why were these people in ACA not focusing on the Solution? What's with all the complaining?

In ACA, we don't hide from the pain anymore. To others this may sound like complaining, but we know that's not what it is. We are locating our pain so we can heal. We allow our Inner Children to come out of hiding and flourish. First they may be angry and sad and need comforting. Then they become our best friends and companions in our Step work. We find new vitality as we see where this partnership leads us.

Our lives become the greatest adventure there is, totally unique. We learn more about ourselves each day by integrating the past into our present and seeing that we are no longer stuck. When we visit old neighborhoods of feeling, we are no longer parched and starving for attention. We nourish ourselves with the love and support of our Higher Power, the Twelve Steps, meetings, and fellowship.

On this day I will chip away at the years of denial by being willing to be present for whatever feelings come up in my day