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Daily Affirmations - Strengthening My Recovery


August 18


Willingness

"With willingness, we are well on our way to recovery." BRB p. 50

In the rooms of recovery, we learn to use the acronym HOW: Honest, Open-minded, and Willing. In ACA, we need to be all three. However, willingness may well be the key to doing the work it takes to achieve the results we seek.

There is a big difference between wanting something and being willing to do the work to get it. Most of us have spent our life up to this point wanting things: higher self-esteem, less anxiety, and a family that loves us unconditionally.

So we enter the ACA program with a mental list of what we want. But are we willing to put forth the effort to recover? We make time for others, for work, for recreational activities, but making time for ourselves may be a foreign concept.

In ACA, the only person we are trying to change is ourselves. The way to make that happen is to make the time for it to happen - to be willing to put ourselves on our schedule, maybe for the first time in our lives.

On this day I will focus on changing my "want" list to include being willing to spend time on myself and my program.

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Adult Children of Alcoholics®
& Dysfunctional Families
World Service Organization, Inc.

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