TOPICS – 6 / 2 / 2025
1. THE UPWARD PATH
Here are the steps we took. . . .
These are the words that lead into the Twelve Steps. In their direct simplicity they sweep aside all psychological and philosophical considerations about the rightness of the Steps. They describe what I did: I took the Steps and sobriety was the result.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59
2. EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY
Emotional sobriety is the result of learning to soothe ourselves rather than manipulating other people to comfort us. Emotional sobriety is the movement away from manipulating others for validation toward supporting and validating ourselves. It’s about mature love and intimacy.
E.S. PDF excerpt
3. CHANNEL OF PEACE
Grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than be comforted – to understand, than to be understood – to love, than be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
ST FRANCIS PRAYER
4. SELF CARE
Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your well-being.
RENEE TRUDEAU