For Today: October 16th

How shall we expect charity toward others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

Sir Thomas Browne

The injustice we do ourselves was aptly expressed by a member who said, “If someone treated me the way I treat myself, I’d sue.”  

While it may be true that I tend to be harder on myself than I am on others, in a larger sense, if I do not feel kindly toward myself, I cannot extend kindness to others.

I am allowed to make mistakes, and so are other people.  Errors can be pointed out and corrected without harsh measures or cruel words, without venomous self-recrimination.

For Today:  Steps four through nine are a highly effective way to deal with my inability to accept imperfections---my own and others’.

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I tend to be hard on myself when I am not following my life-plan: staying abstinent, keeping the house in order, going to work without a chip on my shoulder, and treating others with kindness and respect.

If I slack off in one of those areas, I tend to go downhill FAST, and that's when the self-recrimination amps up something FIERCE.

My compulsive overeating is directly tied into my BEHAVIORS..........I overeat to blot out the fact that I'm unhappy with MYSELF.  So, what do I do to change all that?  I stick to my life-plan all the time and do what I HAVE to do, one step at a time.

When I am fully committed to this life-plan, I am very peaceful inside (for the most part), and I don't feel the need to lash out at the world OR at myself.

For today, I pray to do the jobs before me with acceptance and joy.