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05 Sep Meditation Monday: How Addiction Recovery Changes Us

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In recovery, our perception changes. Our values change. We change.

 

 

October 5, 2015

 

Meditation for the Day

 

What does it mean to love someone unconditionally? Are we supposed to put up with that person’s worst behaviors and keep taking him/her back, no matter what? Unconditional love does not mean that anything goes. Healthy relationships need to have firm boundaries with clearly defined consequences. If those boundaries are crossed, those consequences need to be enforced. Any relationship that doesn’t have strict and clear conditions and swift consequences for ignoring those conditions will invite inappropriate and abusive behavior. We saw plenty of that in our addiction. Now that we want to get well, all that needs to change. In healthy relationships, we are able to say to each other: “My love for you is unconditional, but living with me has these very firm conditions. If you can’t honor or respect them, I will show you the door and ask you to leave with love in my heart.” We do this because we love them and we love ourselves. It’s this kind of love that healthy relationships require.

 

Prayer for the Day

 

I pray that I will learn to maintain very clear boundaries with firm consequences in all of my relationships. I ask my Higher Power for the humility to understand why family and friends might be reluctant at this time to let me come back into their lives.

©Marco Pardo 2015

It doesn’t have to be Monday to get your meditation fix by Marco. 

 

Brandon Fernandez-Comer
Development Specialist
CRI-Help, Inc.
11027 Burbank Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
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