“We examined our lives and discovered who we really are. To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves.”
Basic Text, p. 36
As using addicts, the demands of our disease determined our
personality. We could be whoever or whatever we needed to be in order
to get our “fix.” We were survival machines, adapting easily to every
circumstance of the using life.
Once we began our recovery, we entered a new and different life.
Many of us had no idea what behavior was appropriate for us in any
given situation. Some of us didn’t know how to talk to people, how to
dress, or how to behave in public. We couldn’t be ourselves because we
didn’t know who we were anymore.
The Twelve Steps give us a simple method for finding out who we
really are. We uncover our assets and our defects, the things we like
about ourselves and the things we’re not so thrilled about. Through the
healing power of the Twelve Steps, we begin to understand that we are
individuals, created to be who we are by the Higher Power of our
understanding. The real healing begins when we understand that if our
Higher Power created us this way, it must be okay to be who we really
are.
Just for today: By working the steps I can experience the freedom to be myself, the person my Higher Power intended me to be.
from the book JFT
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