The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sept. 6th
"During acute depresion,....avoid trying to set your whole life in order at once. If you take on assignments so heavy that you are sure to fail in them at the moment, then you are allowing yourself to be tricked by your unconscious. Thus you will continue to make sure of your failure, and when it comes you will have another alibi for still more retreat into depression. In short, the 'all or nothing' attitude is a most destructive one. It is best to begin with whatever the irreducible minimums of activity are. Then work for an enlargement of these--day by day". When I'm discouraged by setbacks, am I willing to start over?
Today I Pray:
When I am immobilized by depression, may I set small, reasonable goals--as miniature perhaps as saying hello to a child, washing my own coffee cup, neatening my desk, offering a short prayer. May I scrap my own script for failure, which sets me up for deeper depression.
Isn't it great that once we start taking of ourselves, instead of being so focused on someone who we can't help, takes us one more step in our recovery? Then, it takes our A one more step by seeing the change in us. I guess it's true that what goes around, comes around.. Just a thought, but I feel sooo much better after treating myself to a little TLC
