The Recovery Show

Finish each day

  Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson…

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Wanting what you have

  It’s not having what you want It’s wanting what you haveSheryl Crow — Soak up the Sun When I can love myself as I am, rather than longing for some future perfection; When I can be comfortable in my own company, rather than needing others around me; When I can find happiness within myself, rather than…

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Meditation

      Please, God, let me be small and useful.       Today, I had an extremely busy day filled with presentations and meetings where I was the point person. Instinctively, I felt myself get anxious and, alas, start to lose my serenity. Thankfully, because of my work with the program, I was…

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Boundaries – Pilot episode 1

Spencer, Kelli, and Swetha discuss boundaries. We all agreed that before coming into the program that we pretty much did not set boundaries, for fear that others would not respect them. Instead we got angry about violations of unstated boundaries and carried those resentments. When we heard talk of boundaries in meetings, we didn’t understand…

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Forgive us

  Forgive us that often we forgive ourselves so easily and others so hardly; Forgive us that we expect perfection from those to whom we show none; Forgive us for repelling people by the way we set a good example; Forgive us the folly of trying to improve a friend; Forbid that we should use…

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