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C2C 12-28  speaks about sponsorship and how important it is to our recovery.    It is here in this relationship that we can learn to trust another  and learn to receive love .Watching and experiencing  Someone who demonstrates  unconditional  love and takes care of themselves and offers support without  giving advise is  a wonderful role model.
 
It is important to define and understand "Intimacy".  Program helped me by defining it  as "INTO ME SEE" I then understood that for years I never let anyone "see me ".  Thank you alanon. for giving me these powerful tools.
 
Sponsorship  can help improve our desire for intimacy: "This interchange between sponsor and sponsee is a form of communication that will nourish both?"


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Iamhere


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Thank you Betty for the daily and your ESH....my sponsor who started in Al-Anon and then decided to join the other side as well celebrates 42 years sober today - so has been in Al-Anon 45 years. I do not know where I would be had I not found her and met her and asked her to be my sponsor! She has lead me through this program and enhanced my experience in the other more than I can put into words.

It's so lovely to have someone that I can call and just bounce my thoughts and feelings off/on. She never judges, she just listens and then offers insight into 'me' and or the program that might help with my situation. I gotta say I love that woman! She's just so real - no pretense, no arrogance, no hidden agenda and a great role model.

Trying to be one's own sponsor just doesn't work well for me - trust me....I've tried. If my own broken thinking got me here, it surely won't get me where I want to go. I am one who needed a calm, mature, program-centered role model to 'see the forest for the trees.'

My hope is we can continue one day at a time for many years to come!

Make it a great day Betty and thanks for your service!!!

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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging.  Pause before assuming.  Pause before accusing.  Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret.  ~~~~  Lori Deschene

 

 
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