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Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 6 Mar 08

Recovery Homework #7 - Judging Others At times, we have all been guilty of making judgments about others. We form our opinions by how a person is dressed or the perfume they wear or how their makeup has been applied. Sometimes...

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Recovery Homework - Freedom vs. Loneliness

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 11 Feb 08

This is something like Recovery Homework #6 or #7. I have lost track. Recovery from any addiction is a long process. It takes many years. We look at the past to figure out our patterns, what worked and what did not work in our...

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Recovery Homework - Trusting your inner voice.

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 5 Jan 08

Homework #5 We all have a little inner voice/gut instinct that helps to guide us and warn us. Your assignment is to explore your inner voice/gut instinct and how much do you actually trust it/yourself. What sets it off? How...

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Recovery Homework - WILLING to change

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 2 Jan 08

Recovery Homework #4 The question you are working with is this: "What are you WILLING to change?" My list: I have spent a week trying to answer this question to myself. I have looked at my list of things that I need Courage...

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Recovery Homework - Wisdom to know the Difference

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 2 Jan 08

Recovery Homework #3 The third line of the Serenity Prayer is: And the Wisdom to know the Difference. Your assignment is to make a plan to take good care of you. My plan to take care of me is: I will seek wisdom through...

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Recovery Homework - Courage to Change the things I can

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 2 Jan 08

Recovery Homework #2 We are now working with the second line of the Serenity Prayer. Your assignment is to list some things that you Can change about yourself. My list is: I can change my job, my house, my hair, my clothes,...

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Recovery Homework - Serenity to Accept the things I can not Change

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 2 Jan 08

Here is your homework assignment #1. We are all familiar with the Serenity Prayer which goes as: God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I can not change, Courage to changes the things I can, And Wisdom to know the...

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Do you want to Recover??

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 29 Dec 07

This is a difficult and personal question that each addict and co-dependent must ask themselves. If the addict wants to continue denying or/and practicing the addiction, the co-dependent has to also answer the additional question...

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The stages of Recovery??

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 26 Dec 07

What are the stages of recovery? Which stage are you working on? I was in the maintenance stage for a long time. I have discovered that I have suffered a relapse. I have to start over. Have you ever experienced a relapse?

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I am an Adult Child of an Alcoholic...Are you?

Lil Bit aka Royal Mom @royal52gens (5488) • United States 26 Dec 07

I am an ACOA. I have spent time in counseling. I have gone to meetings. Yes, they do help........a lot. Adult Children of Alcoholics are taught they have to re-parent themselves. We have to nurture ourselves. We have to take care...

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Children of alcoholic mothers

aka746 @aka746 (17) • United States 13 Apr 07

I am the adult child of a mother who was an alcoholic. Unfortunately, she died on Thanksgiving 2005 when she was 44 of liver failure from cirrhosis - she basically drank herself to death. Now as a mother, I'm finding a hard time...

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